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Edward Norton has revealed Timothee Chalamet was "relentless" in his approach to play Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'.The 55-year-old actor appears opposite the 'Dune' star, 28, in the upcoming biopic as folk singer Peter Seeger, and has now shared that Chalamet – who portrays Dylan – took playing the music icon very seriously, and shut off as many distractions as possible to fully immerse himself in the role.Norton told Rolling Stone magazine: "He was relentless. No visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. [Chalamet said] 'Nobody comes around us while we’re doing this.' "We’re trying to do the best we can with something that’s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people. And I agreed totally — it was like, 'We cannot have a f****** audience for this.' "We’ve got to believe to the greatest degree we can. And he was right to be that protective.

Timothée Chalamet immersed himself as Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, which his co-stars were supportive of.

In a new interview, co-star Edward Norton opened up about seeing Chalamet’s process into playing the singer-songwriter in the James Mangold-directed film.

In the new issue of Rolling Stone with Chalamet on the cover, Norton says, “He was relentless. No visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. ‘Nobody comes around us while we’re doing this.’ We’re trying to do the best we can with something that’s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people.”

Norton continued, “And I agreed totally — it was like, we cannot have a f***ing audience for this. We’ve got to believe to the greatest degree we can. And he was right to be that protective.”

Chalamet noted that he learned from Christian Bale in Hostiles and Oscar Isaac in Dune how...

Taking on the role of Bob Dylan for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet sang Dylan’s songs so well that people on set debated whether he was lip-syncing or not. He also used a method approach to staying immersed in his role.

In Chalamet’s Rolling Stone cover story published Monday, the actor’s co-star Elle Fanning recalled hearing Chalamet sing as Dylan while filming.

“We were in an auditorium, and I was sitting amongst all these background artists. Jim would let Timmy come out and give the crowd a whole concert. He was singing ‘Masters of War’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,’ and I was like, ‘Jesus.’ All of us were kind of shaking, because it was so surreal hearing someone do that. So perfectly done, but it wasn’t a caricature. It was still Timmy, but it’s Bob, and this kind of beautiful meld.

Timothée Chalamet wanted to do Bob Dylan justice in biopic “A Complete Unknown.”

The feature, which marks Chalamet’s transformation into the iconic folk singer, is directed by “Walk the Line” helmer James Mangold, and charts Dylan’s (Chalamet) rise to fame in the early 1960s. Chalamet sings onscreen alongside an ensemble cast including Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Boyd Holbrook, and Scoot McNairy.

Chalamet told Rolling Stone that it was imperative to maintain a certain sense of selflessness and become, well, unknown to himself during the production of “A Complete Unknown.”

“It was something I would go to sleep panicked about, losing a moment of discovery as the character — no matter how pretentious that sounds — because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,” Chalamet said. “I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after five years of preparing to play him. So while I was in it,...

Timothée Chalamet is on his way to becoming a legend. Shifting his skin like water, he goes from one character to another effortlessly. Fans have seen him grow into a true artist, embodying the essence of every film he has been a part of, regardless of how significant his role is.

Timothée Chalamet in Little Women | Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing

Going from Lady Bird to the Dune franchise, his presence on the scene was impactful in both projects. Now, Chalamet is taking a new step in his professional life, starring in a film about Bob Dylan titled A Complete Unknown.

Looking at this, one cannot help but notice the similarities between the actor and the music legend, specifically when Chalamet is so evidently pointing them out.

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El propio Spingsteen ha visitado el set de la película. © 20th Century Studios

Ya ha comenzado el rodaje del biopic de Bruce Springsteen en Nueva Jersey y, con ello, tenemos el primer vistazo oficial al actor de The Bear (y también de la destacada The Iron Claw), Jeremy Allen White, encarnando al propio Boss. Además, el propio Springsteen ha visitado el set de la película y ha sido visto junto al actor.

Dirigida y escrita por Scott Cooper, el filme adapta el libro Deliver Me From Nowhere de Warren Zanes. Narra el largo esfuerzo de Springsteen para crear su álbum seminal de 1982, Nebraska, que comenzó a tomar forma mientras él y la E Street Band estaban grabando canciones para su exitoso álbum Born in the USA. Luchando contra sus demonios personales y tratando de convertirse en una superestrella mundial, Springsteen escribió y grabó Nebraska que rivaliza con Blue, de Joni Mitchell,...

Now we can see what Jon Landau was so giddy about as 20th Century Studios releases the first picture of Jeremy Allen White as The Boss. Production is underway on Deliver Me from Nowhere, the eagerly anticipated movie adaptation of Warren Zanes’ fascinating telling of the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album. Slated for theaters in 2025, the film is written and directed by Scott Cooper and stars Jeremy Allen White as the visionary musician as he embarks on an emotional journey to record Nebraska.

“Beginning production on this film is an incredibly humbling and thrilling journey,” said Cooper. “Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ has profoundly shaped my artistic vision. The album’s raw, unvarnished portrayal of life’s trials and resilience resonates deeply with me. Our film aims to capture that same spirit, bringing Warren Zanes’ compelling narrative of Bruce’s life to the screen with authenticity and hope, honoring...

Production is underway on Deliver Me from Nowhere, the movie adaptation of Warren Zanes’ fascinating telling of the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album. 20th Century Studios revealed the first photo from the set today.

Slated for theaters in 2025, the film is written and directed by Scott Cooper and stars Jeremy Allen White as the visionary musician as he embarks on an emotional journey to record Nebraska.

“Beginning production on this film is an incredibly humbling and thrilling journey,” said Cooper. “Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ has profoundly shaped my artistic vision. The album’s raw, unvarnished portrayal of life’s trials and resilience resonates deeply with me.

“Our film aims to capture that same spirit, bringing Warren Zanes’ compelling narrative of Bruce’s life to the screen with authenticity and hope, honoring Bruce’s legacy in a transformative cinematic experience. It has been a great pleasure to collaborate with...

Disney’s 20th Century Studios plans to release a film next year about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic 1982 album “Nebraska.” The movie will tell the story behind the recording of Springsteen’s stripped-down album, which marked a change in style. Scott Cooper will direct and write the film, adapting the book “Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: The Making of an American Masterpiece” by Warren Zanes.

Cooper, known for directing “Crazy Heart” and “Hostiles,” said Springsteen’s album had a big influence on his work. He stated that “Nebraska” portrayed life’s hardships and hope in a raw, real way. Cooper wants the film to capture the feel of the original music while bringing the book’s narrative to the screen accurately.

The film has support from Bruce Springsteen and his manager Jon Landau. Cooper noted they have helped shape the project from the beginning. An experienced production team that...

The first look at “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere” has been revealed as production gets underway.

Directed and written by Scott Cooper, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” adapts Warren Zanes’ book of the same name about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album “Nebraska.” Filming is taking place primarily in Springsteen’s native New Jersey and New York, with additional production in Los Angeles, and the movie is set to hit theaters next year.

According to a press release, Springsteen’s recording of “Nebraska” “marked a pivotal time in his life, one that he would only openly talk about decades after its release. It’s regarded as a landmark in his musical odyssey and a source of inspiration for a generation of artists and musicians. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom and without The E Street Band,...

This week, Lionsgate released — and then promptly recalled — an audacious trailer for “Megalopolis,” an ugly yet undeniably ambitious late-career monstrosity from Francis Ford Coppola.

Normally, trailers come padded with hyperbolic quotes from less-than-credible critics — “quote whores,” we call them — plucked out of context and punched up with exclamation marks.

“An edge-of-your-seat thrill ride!” (“Any Given Sunday”)

“The best Western since ‘Unforgiven’!”

“Two thumbs way up!” (professional enthusiasts Siskel and Ebert on more movies than you can count)

In the case of “Megalopolis,” the marketing team tried a different strategy. Instead of quoting reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival, Lionsgate lied.

Whoever oversaw that trailer seemed to be working on the assumption that you’ve already heard that “Megalopolis” is a disaster, so they set out to discredit the critics … by making up negative reviews of past Coppola triumphs. The trailer quotes Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael sniping “The Godfather,...

Exclusive: Amid the theatrical release of their horror pic Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Waypoint Entertainment has announced the launch of new genre label Cweature Features.

Helmed by industry veterans Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, the label will offer a collaborative sanctuary for filmmakers to create horrifying auteur content, supported by the expertise of its seasoned team. The name Cweature Features (pronounced “Kwee-Cha Fee-Chas”) was inspired by the tendency of Kao’s young children to mispronounce creature as “cweature,” with their teeth still coming in. He and his wife came to realize that the little ones resembled little “cweatures” themselves, and the moment evoked nostalgia for Kao, for the period in his childhood when his early love for all things scary began. Cweature Features will embrace the idea that horror is an experience that transcends age, blending fear with fun and not taking itself too seriously.

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Over the last couple of decades, Christian Bale has scored quite a few remarkably successful projects, that have showcased his acting range. From being The Caped Crusader in DC to Gorr the God Butcher in Marvel, he has made the viewers his fans through his acting. Moreover, he has not hesitated to showcase his prowess, which has left a lasting impression in the minds of the viewers.

Christian Bale. Credits: Siebbi/ Wikimedia Commons

As a result, he has established a reputation as of one the most talented and critically praised actors of all time. There’s no denying that in his stellar career, Christian Bale has portrayed roles that have only gotten better over time.

However, the American Psycho actor used one simple trick to fool the people in Hollywood, and allowed him to bag more roles. Well, Bale switched the British accent to a US accent with such authenticity...

Rosamund Pike has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s Now You See Me 3 in the latest instalment in the adventures of the thieving illusionists known as the Four Horsemen.

While details of Pike’s role remain under wraps the studio said it will be “pivotal”. She joins previously announced Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, and Ariana Greenblatt.

Ruben Fleischer will return to direct and the project is being conceived as the launch pad for the future of the franchise. The logline has not been disclosed.

At time of writing it was expected that original cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson,...

Josh Rosenbaum has been promoted to partner at Ken Kao’s Waypoint Entertainment, the production and finance company behind Neon’s upcoming horror thriller Cuckoo.

Rosenbaum, who began his career at WME, joined the company in 2015 and has worked on films that include 2017’s Hostiles, Jared Leto starrer The Outsider, and Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, Mid 90s. Rosenbaum’s appointment to the newly created post comes after the company signed on to a slate deal with Neon that will see the company produce and finance films in the $10 million range with the speciality label.

“Whether advocating for filmmakers or seamlessly collaborating with our partner teams, those fortunate enough to work alongside him can attest to his undeniable creative prowess,” said Kao. “His multifaceted contributions across all areas of the business have been pivotal to our success, and I am excited to have him as a Partner, propelling Waypoint to even greater heights.

Jonathan Majors’ Kang was supposed to be the big antagonist in the upcoming Avengers films and the climactic antagonist for the ‘Multiversal Saga’ of the MCU. However, the actor was dropped from future Marvel projects due to his legal troubles and eventual sentencing after being accused of assault.

The actor made his MCU debut with the Disney Plus series Loki, where he was introduced as He Who Remains, the protector of the Sacred Timeline. He also made an appearance in the box office disaster Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and was regarded as the best part of the film. Majors had mentioned his technique to get into character, which included a curated playlist that got the energy of the role right.

Jonathan Majors Used One Technique To Deliver Great Performances As Kang Jonathan Majors as Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Jonathan Majors rose to prominence quickly in his career as an actor.

Batalla de titanes: 20th Century Studios se convierte en la distribuidora de la película tras una intensa batalla con A24.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Scott Cooper se encuentra escribiendo y dirigirá “Deliver Me from Nowhere”, una película biopic sobre Bruce Springsteen y su largo esfuerzo para crear su álbum seminal de 1982, “Nebraska”, que comenzó a tomar forma mientras él y la E Street Band estaban grabando canciones para su exitoso álbum “Born in the USA”. Luchando contra sus demonios personales y tratando de convertirse en una superestrella mundial, Springsteen escribió y grabó Nebraska que rivaliza con “Blue”, de Joni Mitchell, como uno de los más emocionalmente crudos, oscuros y honestos de la historia reciente de la música. Se trata de una adaptación del libro de Warren Zanes publicado el año pasado y Springsteen y su manager Jon Landau están activamente involucrados en el proyecto.

El actor de “The Bear”, Jeremy Allen White,...

Less than two months into the job David Greenbaum, the newly appointed head of Disney live-action and 20th Century Studios, has made a statement buy and acquired the Bruce Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere with Jeremy Allen White in talks to star.

20th Century Studios and Disney will produce and distribute the feature from Scott Cooper about the making of Springsteen’s classic 1982 album Nebraska.

Cooper, whose credits include Crazy Heart and Hostiles, will write and direct the film. White has won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for The Bear, which ran on Disney-owned Hulu.

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“Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the upcoming film about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1982 “Nebraska” album, has landed at 20th Century Studios.

“The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White is in talks to star as the legendary rocker. Scott Cooper will write and direct the film, which is based on Warren Zane’s 2023 book “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.”

“Nebraska,” the follow-up to Springsteen’s hugely successful album “The River,” was widely expected to be a rock album with the E Street Band. Instead, it was a stark solo album made on a 4-track recorder. The book and the film tell the story of Springsteen’s artistic journey in the creation of the record, which is regarded as a watershed in his musical odyssey.

The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (“The Maze Runner” trilogy) and Eric Robinson, Cooper, Zanes and Scott Stuber are producers.

Christian Bale is probably the most diligent actor Hollywood has. Bale’s commitment to the craft is unparalleled. He has quite the reputation of going above and beyond to do justice to the characters he plays. With extreme physical transformations and voice modulations, Bale plays his characters like he’s grown new skin.

Christian Bale in Hostiles

The Batman star has seemingly outdone himself with his latest endeavor. Bale is set to play Frankenstein’s monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride, with the titular character played by Jessie Buckley. The first-look photos from the film show the actors in character. And Bale’s look is something that would run a chill down one’s spine.

Christian Bale’s New Look Is Nothing Short of Spine-Chilling

Christian Bale’s first look as Frankenstein in The Bride | Source: mgyllenhaal on Instagram

Renowned for his ability to go through incredible physical metamorphosis,...

La película que los fans de Springsteen estaban esperando.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Scott Cooper se encuentra escribiendo y dirigirá “Deliver Me from Nowhere”, una película biopic sobre Bruce Springsteen y su largo esfuerzo para crear su álbum seminal de 1982, “Nebraska”, que comenzó a tomar forma mientras él y la E Street Band estaban grabando canciones para su exitoso álbum “Born in the USA”. Se trata de una adaptación del libro de Warren Zanes publicado el año pasado y Springsteen y su manager Jon Landau están activamente involucrados en el proyecto.

El actor de “The Bear”, Jeremy Allen White, es ahora mismo la elección principal para interpretar a Springsteen, y las conversaciones están en marcha con A24 para hacer la película. Aún no han comenzado las negociaciones con el actor, quien se dirigiría a Nueva Jersey para filmar en otoño después de que el ganador del Emmy termine el rodaje...

Christian Bale is known for his insane transformations and some of the most critically acclaimed roles in Hollywood. The 50-year-old Oscar winner has worked with some of the greatest directors and delivered some critically and commercially successful flicks. However, he also has a fair share of flop films in his career. Interestingly, many of these projects even came after his highly successful, The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Trilogy

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy is one of the most significant works in Christian Bale’s filmography. His incredible performance as the Caped Crusader in Nolan’s gritty world elevated the trilogy’s quality and made Bale a household name. Surprisingly, even that stardom could not save the American Psycho fame from some of the biggest flops in his career.

Here are 5 films by Christian Bale that did not get any help from his Batman...

Dune 2 Star Timothee Chalamet Movies Ranked As Per Rotten Tomatoes. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

Timothee Chalamet is being lauded for his fantastic performance in Denis Villeneuve’s epic saga Dune 2. The film was released in the theatres on Friday, and it’s a visual treat for moviegoers. The film is one of the top-rated ones across various platforms, but Chalamet, over his short career span, has given several high-rated films.

Chalamet won hearts with his lively performance as Willy Wonka in last year’s Wonka. It became his career’s highest-grossing film as a leading man. But it seems Dune 2 might take away that title soon. He is essaying the character of Paul Atreides, and his ascension in this part has been remarkably shown. Scroll below for more.

Timothee Chalamet’s character Paul seemed a bit lost in the first film but understood his purpose and became a leader in Dune 2.

Families can be complicated, even for Hollywood elites like Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale. Celebrated for his remarkable performances in movies like The Dark Knight trilogy, American Psycho, and The Fighter, Bale has risen to become one of Hollywood’s most beloved and talented stars.

Christian Bale in Hostiles

However, some of his actions have garnered criticism, including the 2008 incident involving allegations of assault made by his mother, Jenny James, and elder sister, Sharon Bale. The incident reportedly strained relations within the Bale family, prompting the 50-year-old actor to refrain from talking to his mother for a decade.

Christian Bale Lashed Out at His Family Members Ahead of The Dark Knight Premiere

In 2008, Hollywood actor Christian Bale reportedly lashed out at his mother and sister ahead of the premiere of his superhero film The Dark Knight. Reports state that the alleged incident happened at Dorchester Hotel, London, where he was staying...

Rosamund Pike is one of the finest actresses in the industry. She started her film career in 2002 with the James Bond movie Die Another Day. In the film, she played the role of Miranda Frost (a Bond girl) alongside Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost in James Bond

This role was important for Pike, helping her make a mark in the industry. It set the stage for many of her memorable performances to come. On top of this role, the actress is famous for her roles in Jack Reacher (2012), Gone Girl (2014), Hostiles (2017), and the TV series State of the Union.

Her lead role in Gone Girl got her nominated for BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Actress. Even though the 45-year-old has shown she can play a variety of characters in different movies, fans keep pigeonholing her into specific roles.

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Ah Hollywood. The evil temptress where talent often overshadows any sort of character flaw. Many people claim it to be a new development with the advent of social media, where a person tweets out something dumb ten years ago only to have it brought back up when they have a new Netflix movie dropping. But actually, celebrities have seen their careers implode long before people posted pictures of their dinners online for the world to see. Think back to the story of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, one of the highest-paid silent film stars of the era whose talent and fame were overshadowed when a woman was assaulted and subsequently died at a party hosted by the famed comedian. Arbuckle was acquitted of the crimes, but his career never recovered. We have never seen a career implosion like we witnessed in 2023 when an emerging talent had a genuine break-out year that was...

Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest Martin Scorsese film and as expected it’s brilliant. The revisionist western crime drama film is co-written by Eric Roth and it is based on a book of the same name by David Grann. The crime drama film revolves around a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s after oil was found on tribal land. Killers of the Flower Moon stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone. So, if you also loved Killers of the Flower Moon here are the 10 best similar movies you could watch next.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.

Synopsis: The names ricochet through Western lore. Jesse James (Brad Pitt) was the most notorious outlaw of his time, wanted by the law in ten states yet celebrated as a Robin Hood in newspapers and dime novels.

There are a few actors to watch in 2023 — and Jonathan Majors is one of them. As one of the hottest young actors in the game, he made waves with big movies like The Harder They Fall and Devotion. He’s also currently portraying Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a role that has brought him a great deal of acclaim and attention from critics and fans. In the wake of his appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Majors scored a reputation as one of Hollywood’s next big rising stars. In a recent interview with NPR, Majors opened up about his love for acting and why he considers it to be the only thing that hasn’t “abandoned” him.

Jonathan Majors had his big breakout role in 2019

Majors was born in California in 1989. He spent his early years on a military base due to his father’s...

Jonathan Majors has been an actor on the rise during the last several years, popping up in offbeat studio films like "Hostiles," "White Boy Rick" and "Captive State" before making a splash in "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" and HBO's gone-too-soon series "Lovecraft Country." It's on the strength of his work in those films and shows that Marvel Studios hired him to anchor the next phase of their Cinematic Universe as Kang the Conqueror, a villain who's currently mixing it up with Ant-Man in the recent "Quantumania," and he continues to play challenging characters elsewhere, such as in the upcoming "Magazine Dreams." 

Now he's poised to demonstrate his considerable range once again with his performance as Damian Anderson in "Creed III." In the film, Damian is a man who's grown up within the prison system while his old buddy, Adonis Creed, has risen to greatness in the boxing ring,...

Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Tony Tost’s feature directorial debut Americana, from Bron Studios/Saks Picture Company is making its world premiere at SXSW on March 17 at the Paramount Theatre in the festival’s Narrative Spotlight section.

Formerly known as National Anthem, the pic stars Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, Zahn McClarnon, Gavin Maddox Bergman, Simon Rex, Derek Hinkey, Toby Huss and Harriet Sansom Harris. In the pic, unlikely heroes and villains must navigate a complex playing field in pursuit of a legendary Native American artifact with ties to the complicated history of the American West in this elevated, darkly comedic crime thriller.

The movie also marks multi-platinum, chart-topping singer-songwriter Halsey’s first on-screen role. The award-winning, Grammy-nominated recording artist has amassed more than 50 billion streams worldwide, and over 75 million RIAA-certified singles and albums sold.

Bron and WME Independent are repping worldwide sales for the acquisition title.

When “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” director Peyton Reed started thinking about what a third “Ant-Man” film might look like with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and producer Stephen Broussard, the trio had a few different ideas that seemed of great importance. Mostly, two films into the franchise-within-a-franchise, Reed wanted to do “something really different,” he wanted to treat it as a “trilogy capper” that paid off on elements from the first two movies, he wanted to go to the Quantum Realm, and he wanted to give co-star Michelle Pfeiffer a truly heroic role.

And they needed a really big villain to help bring all that together. “It was like, ‘And I’d love to put Ant-Man and the Wasp, these two sort of unlikely Avengers, up against a really formidable foe in this movie,'” the director said in a recent interview with IndieWire.

The answer: Kang the Conquerer,...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all charges against Yellowstone and The Alienist actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who had been accused of workers compensation fraud last year.

“Today, I am beyond grateful that my case has been dismissed – tomorrow my journey begins to help raise awareness and demand more transparency for worker’s rights within the workers comp system,” she said in a statement.

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The case stemmed from Kilcher working on the Kevin Costner drama series Yellowstone while she had been collecting temporary disability insurance benefits. Her attorneys at Brown Rudnick Llp said today that Kilcher had suffered “a serious and life-altering traumatic injury she endured while...

This post contains spoilers for the ending of "The Pale Blue Eye."

With a 130-minute runtime, Netflix's "The Pale Blue Eye," based on the novel by Louis Bayard, reaches a fiery climax with about half an hour left to go. Just when you think it's over and detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has solved the central murder mystery, the movie keeps going, delivering a final twist ending on top of that.

Viewers are with Landor the whole film as he investigates the grisly death and organ removal of more than one cadet at the West Point military academy with the help of his new friend, Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Suspicion falls on the Marquis family, and in a histrionic scene, we see three members of that family, including Poe's love interest, Lea Marquis (Lucy Boynton), about to remove his telltale heart in a Satanic ritual.

Landor comes to...

Suppose they took a hit movie to VOD after only two weekends at the box office, and it didn’t matter? That seems to be the case with when Universal’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (19.99), which is available exactly 17 days after its theatrical opening. The Dreamworks animated sequel is currently #1 on all three charts we follow.

In its first post-holiday weekend “Puss in Boots” was #3 in theaters, grossing over 13 million and falling only 19 percent. This follows the identical path Universal chose for “Sing 2” a year ago. That title soared throughout 2022 in home play, most recently placing in Netflix’s top 10 for a record six months.

The immediate rise of “Puss in Boots” to #1 displaced “Knives Out” (Lionsgate/3.99). The 2019 title that kicked off Rian Johnson’s franchise took the dominant position on VOD charts last week in the wake of Netflix debuting “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Christian Bale is charting a new career path: producer.

After receiving his first such credit in the fall, on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, he snagged another one on his new film, The Pale Blue Eye. But Bale is not one to sneak the credit into his contracts as some vanity gift.

“Like everybody, I’m stunned sometimes at the amount of producers you see in the credits,” Bale explained to THR at the recent premiere of the Netflix film that he produced for filmmaker and frequent collaborator Scott Cooper.

“I did it on Amsterdam and with this because I was there right from the inception. I helped to put the films together, and mostly as a creative producer, a right-hand man, sort of a consigliere,” Bale continued. “I can be there to whisper in their ear, reminding them of how we put it together, what the intent was, etc.

It’s 1830 on the snowy New York campus of the United States Military Academy and a young cadet has been found hanged. The coroner and others will eventually discover that the man’s heart has been stolen from his chest and a portion of a note, yet to be deciphered, has been hidden away, clutched in the dead man’s hardened grip. Not to worry: Christian Bale is on the case. The Pale Blue Eye stars Bale as Detective Augustus Landor, the kind of guy whose reputation (a dead wife,...

Plot: West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Review: The Pale Blue Eye is a film I have been looking forward to since it was announced that Netflix had bought the rights back in 2021. Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, the whodunit chronicles a mystery featuring a brilliant detective and a historical figure. This combination works wonderfully in this film thanks to the talents of Christian Bale and Harry Melling as two very different characters. Writer/director Scott Cooper, known for his distinct style, has long pursued adapting The Pale Blue Eye, and his passion shows in the finished product. Still, despite the competency and talent involved in bringing this story to the screen,...

The opening image of "The Pale Blue Eye" reveals "a young cadet who has met his maker hanging from a noose on a tree next to the Hudson River." That's how filmmaker Scott Cooper describes the shot from what he calls his most accessible film, a gothic murder mystery set in the 19th century. The director behind "Crazy Heart," "Hostiles," and "Out of the Furnace" is no stranger to bleakness, but in the case of his latest film, he gets to play with Edgar Allan Poe's macabre sense of humor to make a movie that is, in fact, his most conventionally entertaining movie. 

Based on Louis Bayard's novel, the story follows a young Poe (Harry Melling) and a weary detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), joining forces to solve a series of murders in West Point, New York. Often, "The Pale Blue Eye" plays as a buddy comedy between the two men,...

Poe Boy: Cooper Fails to Find the Exquisite Beauty in Eerie, Dreary Period Mystery

You’ll certainly be reduced to the mindset of the weak and weary after pondering the endless midnight dreary of Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye. Yet another stab at genre following his more vivacious (by comparison) examination of the Wendigo legend in 2021’s Antlers (read review), this adaptation of the 2003 romanticized plundering of Edgar Allan Poe by Louis Bayard likely reads better as printed pulp than visualized as a glossy, gothic whodunit.

Cooper’s third outing with Christian Bale (serving as producer) following the stilted melodrama 2013’s Out of the Furnace (read review) and their portrait of the harrowing heritage of white man’s violence in Hostiles (2017) denies the celebrated actor any room to stretch (seeing as he plays another disenchanted wretch who’s headhunted for his specific skills as a dramatic catalyst).…

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“The Pale Blue Eye” is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin story of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hanging from a tree branch (his feet were touching the ground), but it’s what happens after he dies that counts: Someone has made a vertical incision in his chest and removed his heart.

Christian Bale plays Augustus Landor, the haunted eccentric detective who is brought in by the West Point brass to solve the crime.

A serial killer saga that’s set along the frozen banks of the Hudson River during the winter of 1830, Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye” may be tapping into the cleverest aspect of the Louis Bayard novel from which it’s been adapted: If a young Edgar Allen Poe were involved in solving a series of murders, it would only be a matter of time before everyone started to suspect that he was behind them.

Harry Melling’s heroically weird performance as the death-obsessed poet has the potential to lull viewers into the same trap, even if it would seem that we should know better. Then again, most people don’t know anything about Poe’s brief stint at West Point, where his morbid nature and Southern lilt supposedly made him an irresistible target for some of his more abusive fellow cadets.

While it’s true that Poe is...

Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

As a director, Scott Cooper has achieved a reputation for handling the tough textures of the western; now he applies that expertise to this enjoyable if entirely preposterous historical mystery thriller, adapted by Cooper from the 2003 bestseller by Louis Bayard, an author renowned for his ingenious reimaginings of real-life historical figures and famous fictional characters.

The Pale Blue Eye takes place in 1830 and Christian Bale, in full haunted/bearded mode (the same that he had for Cooper’s 2017 western drama Hostiles), plays renowned detective Augustus Landor; he is in a semi-retired, semi-hermit state, a sad widower whose daughter has disappeared. But Landor is strangely taken with a grotesque case that is put to him. A cadet at the US military academy in West Point has been murdered; hanged and his heart cut out of his body.

(L-rf) Toby Jones and Gillian Anderson in The Pale Blue Eye Image: Scott Garfield/Netflix At first glance, The Pale Blue Eye has everything audiences could want in a chilling, wintry thriller: a well-stocked cavalcade of actors, eerie aesthetics, and an intriguing premise centered on a depressed detective and a...

Wednesday Addams may see her title of “Netflix’s resident goth detective” challenged by the release of The Pale Blue Eye. Scott Cooper’s period thriller places a young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) at the centre of a fictionalised murder mystery in upstate New York. But, to Cooper’s credit, the film feels a lot less silly in practice than the one-sentence elevator pitch of Louis Bayard’s source novel. It’s a handsome adaptation, albeit with an unnecessary bit of literary celebrity dragged alongside it.

It’s 1830, and veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has been summoned to Westpoint Military Academy, where Poe happens to be stationed (the only detail true to biography). The dead body of a cadet, found hanged under suspicious circumstances, has been desecrated post-mortem – his heart carved from his chest and spirited away. We’re to be reminded, of course, of the “tell-tale heart...

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A dour slow burn of a movie that never catches fire — even when a crime scene is set ablaze — Netflix’s period procedural The Pale Blue Eye has the curiosity factor of being a murder mystery that doubles as an Edgar Allan Poe origin story. Based on the 2003 novel by Louis Bayard, this third collaboration between writer-director Scott Cooper and Christian Bale (following Out of the Furnace and Hostiles) is far stronger on gothic atmosphere than suspense. It’s capably acted and visually effective, with lots of mist-shrouded woodlands and chiaroscuro interiors, but the storytelling is stilted and uninvolving.

Bale stars as the fictional figure of Augustus Landor, a widowed former police detective living alone in a remote cottage in Hudson Valley, New York, in 1830, with a strong reputation for breaking difficult cases and cracking codes.

When a cadet from the still-fledgling U.

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Just over a decade ago, Scott Cooper called Christian Bale to offer him the starring role in Out of the Furnace, which he wrote specifically for Bale. Cooper was only a couple years removed from his feature directorial debut, Crazy Heart, which landed Jeff Bridges a long-deserved Oscar. Since Cooper tailor made Crazy Heart just for Bridges, he took the same approach with Bale and Furnace, except Bale politely declined the invitation at first. After all, Bale, who was still a young father at the time, was also nearing production on Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, and to top it all off, he had to promote his final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, in between it all.

Cooper and Out of the Furnace remained at a standstill until Bale ultimately changed his mind, leading to a ongoing collaboration and friendship that...

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Christian Bale and director Scott Cooper, who have previously teamed up for 2013’s Out of the Furnace and 2017’s Hostiles, have come together for their third collaboration, Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye.

Based off of a novel by Louis Bayard, the film stars Bale as an 1830s detective in West Point, New York, investigating a series of murders at the United States Military Academy with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe, who was a cadet at the academy.

“Scott had first sent this to me about 10 years ago; he’s a very prolific writer and has an abundance of projects that we are talking about continually,” Bale told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, joking, “He felt like he wanted me to get a bit more gray and bit more crow’s feet and...

“The Pale Blue Eye” marks the latest collaboration between Christian Bale and Scott Cooper. The two have previously worked together on “Out of the Furnace,” which was met with massive critical praise for both talents, while their previous collaboration, “Hostiles,” wasn’t as well-received.

The two reunite in this adaptation of Louis Bayard‘s novel of the same name, as Bale plays Detective Augustus Landor, investigating a series of murders with Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling.

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In the trailer for upcoming film “Pale Blue Eye,” Christian Bale is investigating a murder in 1830s upstate New York.

Netflix has released the first look at the American Gothic mystery film, in which Bale plays veteran detective Augustus Landor. Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel of the same name, the film follows Landor as he is called to investigate a killing at the United States Military Academy in West Point. With a serial killer on the prowl, Augustus enlists Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) to help him solve the case. Poe, the renowned writer and poet known for “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A Dream Within a Dream,” is introduced as young cadet at the military academy.

“Down, down, down came the hot thrashing flurry,” Melling’s Poe says in a teaser released on Oct. 27. “Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury, leaving only that deathly pale blue eye.

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Jonathan Majors’ accomplishments are even more impressive when you consider that he graduated Yale School of Drama just six years ago.

On Nov. 23, the actor returns to the big screen as Korean War hero Jesse L. Brown in J.D. Dillard’s Devotion. Majors’ performance as Brown chronicles his achievements as the first African-American naval aviator, as well as his heroics in the “Forgotten War.” The film features one of Majors’ most remarkable scenes to date, as he performs Jesse’s preflight ritual of reciting every terrible remark that’s ever been said to him. As one can imagine, the scene had quite an emotional impact on Majors.

“I just needed to stay out of the way and let Jesse’s story come out. I needed to let my ancestors’ story come out and anybody else who felt marginalized and put down to that degree,...