Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are ready to embrace the madness (and fall in crazy love) in the new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, set to arrive in theaters on Oct. 4. The two-minute trailer, which dropped Tuesday, opens with Phoenix’s Joker seeing Gaga’s Harley Quinn for the first …
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In the weeks since the 2024 Academy Awards, figures throughout Hollywood have continued to declare their support for director Jonathan Glazer. While accepting the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for The Zone of Interest, a film that centers on the Holocaust, the Jewish director criticized the dehumanization of …
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A Joker sequel was never technically in the cards. When director Todd Phillips made his anti-superhero origin film about the classic Batman villain — with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role — it was designed to be a standalone film. While Phillips acknowledged he was open to making a follow-up …
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Director Todd Phillips celebrated Valentine’s Day by sharing three new images from his forthcoming sequel Joker: Folie à Deux. The stills, shared on Instagram and geo-tagged as Gotham City, reveal stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as the Joker and Harley Quinn in romantic situations. “Hoping your day is full …
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Merry Christmas, Joker fans. Director Todd Phillips celebrated the holiday by unveiling two new images from his forthcoming sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. The photos, which he shared on Instagram, showcases stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as the Joker and Harley Quinn. “Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a …
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T odd Haynes is, in this writer’s opinion, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Ever since his 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a moving examination of the singer’s battle with anorexia using Barbie dolls and created while he was at Bard College, his unique voice has enraptured audiences. …
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Ridley Scott has the giggles. The revelation that I’m a New Yorker has prompted the legendary director to launch into a winding tale of the time he was on a traveling scholarship after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. “They said, ‘Where do you want to go?’ And, being …
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“All art is autobiographical,” Federico Fellini once said. “The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” No one would accuse Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s two-and-a-half-hour epic (that’s the theatrical cut’s running time, mind you; there’s a four-hour version waiting in the wings as well) about the French dictator’s rise and fall, of being …
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Fifty-five celebrities, including Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, Joaquin Phoenix, Jon Stewart, and Michael Stipe, have signed an open letter to President Joe Biden asking him to “call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost.” Specifically, they would like to see an end …
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Joaquin Phoenix‘s Napoleon Bonaparte can’t fail in the trailer for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. The leader’s relentless sequence of wins brought him the highest praise as a military commander, which eventually carried him straight to the throne as the Emperor of the French in 1804. But alongside all those successes, he …
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