‘Mank’ Review: Gary Oldman Is Delectably Droll as the Screenwriter of ‘Citizen Kane’ in David Fincher’s Immersive Old Hollywood Drama

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are in Colombia. The couple is working on 30x30, a commitment that wants to protect 30% of the planet’s land by the year 2030.

The world is watching in horror as Russia invades Ukraine, with one of the largest armies on the planet killing innocent citizens and destroying countless buildings and homes with each passing day. While governments impose financial sanctions aimed at hurting the aggressor’s leader and its wealthy ruling class, many ordinary people feel hopeless.Now, a Russian musician known around the globe for political activism has utilized her platform and popularity to raise millions for the Ukrainian defense — and she did so using a sexy new technology that ensures the money is going where it’s needed without delay.Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the members of Russian rock band Pussy Riot, set up an organization named UkraineDAO in order to sell an NFT for a good cause.The digital-only artwork sold for a whopping $6.7 million, and all the proceeds are going to Come Back Alive, a non-profit that was founded in 2014 and that calls itself “the largest foundation providing support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”In just three days, as many as 3,200 individual donors spent digital cryptocurrency to own some of the NFT, which was nothing more than an image of the Ukrainian flag.

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, meaning that we're all legally obligated to do the same according Miss Dula Peep. Sorry, we don't make the rules.The 26-year-old singer was spotted in Manhattan with a fresh set of angular bangs pulled out of her signature messy up-do.

Shane Warne paid tribute to another famous cricketer just hours before his shock death of a suspected heart attack aged 52.The Australian bowler died unexpectedly in Thailand just hours after the sportsman paid tribute on social media to cricketer Rod Marsh, who also died of a heart attack aged 74 in the early hours of Friday morning. Shane called Rod “an inspiration” and “legend” in his final post, which read: “Sad to hear the news that Rod Marsh has passed.

A Scots wrestler has shed over 13 stone after a doctor's grave warning forced him to change his life.

We didn’t know Gene Simmons had such an opinion about Kanye West‘s relentless pursuit of ex Kim Kardashian…

Travis Barker is proving to be quite the upstanding gentleman. The Blink 182 drummer gave a show of solid support to his ex Shanna Moakler after she revealed she is expecting her fourth child. The announcement came just days after her ex boyfriend Matthew Rondeau was arrested for felony domestic violence. With the timing being quite sensitive, a source EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife that Travis is stepping up to let Shanna know he’s “there for her.”

Luke Combs might have found his new backup singer.

st birthday that he’d give away most of his $25 million to anyone who asked — as a gift for the needy, a sign of rich-in-life contentment (he’d just gotten married), and a down payment on more love in a wartorn, unequal world.The largely forgotten story of the “hippie millionaire,” whose Scarsdale home, phone line, and Manhattan business address (all given out freely by Brody) were flooded with recipient hopefuls, is only part of the weird, wonderful, and woeful retelling that is Keith Maitland’s engrossing documentary “Dear Mr. Brody.” Maitland’s previous film “Tower,” which heart-stoppingly recounted the University of Texas campus killings in 1966, remains one of the best documentaries of the past decade, and as another imaginative slice of history, memory, and contemporary applicability, this one is a more than worthy follow-up.Even if you’re unfamiliar with this blip in the timeline of eccentric beneficence, paying attention to the last 50 years would tell you that Brody’s pie-in-the-sky mission to change the world didn’t pan out.

Acclaimed director David Fincher is sharing his thoughts on the movie Joker and why he considers it to be a “betrayal of the mentally ill.” Fincher recently talked about Joker‘s success in contrast to his movie Fight Club, which was much more difficult to get made back in the late 1990s. “Nobody would have thought they had a shot at a giant hit with Joker had The Dark Knight not been as massive as it was,” Fincher told The Telegraph. “I don’t think ­anyone would have looked at that material and thought, Yeah, let’s take [Taxi Driver’s] Travis Bickle and [The King of Comedy’s] Rupert Pupkin and conflate them, then trap him in a betrayal of the mentally ill, and trot it out for a billion dollars,” Fincher added.

Joker to be “a betrayal of the mentally ill”.The DC film, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, has received criticism since its release for its portrayal of mental illness, and was later crowned the most complained about movie of 2019.In a new interview with The Telegraph, director Fincher, who made his big screen return this week with new film Mank, likened Joker to a “trap”.‘I don’t think ­anyone would have looked at that material and thought, “Yeah, let’s take [Taxi Driver’s] Travis Bickle and [The King of Comedy’s] Rupert Pupkin and conflate them, then trap him in a betrayal of the mentally ill, and trot it out for a billion dollars’,” the director said.Regarding Joker‘s record-breaking box office take, Fincher stated his

Director David Fincher is sharing his thoughts on Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker”, using it as an example of studios who take fewer risks on projects.

The Telegraph. Also Read: David Fincher's 'Mank' Scores Early Raves: 'Luxuriant Cinephile Swoon of a Movie'“I don’t think ­anyone would have looked at that material and thought, Yeah, let’s take [‘Taxi Driver’s’] Travis Bickle and [‘The King of Comedy’s’] Rupert Pupkin and conflate them, then trap him in a betrayal of the mentally ill, and trot it out for a billion dollars,” he said.The film grossed over $1 billion at the box office, scored two Oscars and nine other nominations, and became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.“I’m sure that Warner Bros thought at a certain price, and with the right cast, and with De Niro coming along for the ride, it would be a possible double or triple,” Fincher added.

Acclaimed director David Fincher is sharing his thoughts on the movie Joker and why he considers it to be a “betrayal of the mentally ill.”

One of the best parts about awards season is getting to see big directors go through the endless press tour cycle until they run out of things to talk about from their movie, and simply start throwing hot takes at every turn. Last year it was Martin Scorsese accidentally starting a war between filmmakers and Marvel after comparing the MCU to theme park rides.

Mank.Discussing the new film in an interview with The Telegraph, Fincher also discussed future plans, and detailed the new miniseries.“It’s about how modern society measures an apology,” he said. “If you give a truly heartfelt apology and no one believes it, did you even apologise at all? It’s a troubling idea but we live in troubling times.”Since his last big screen appearance with 2017’s Gone Girl, Fincher also helmed the Netflix limited series Mindhunter, which has now been put on hold indefinitely, with the director saying a third season is “unlikely”.Giving new film Mank a five-star review, NME wrote: “Fincher’s latest is a sophisticated drama that’s worth taking the time to get your head around.

When you make a film like “Citizen Kane” as your first feature as a filmmaker, people are going to throw tons of acclaim your way. And that’s exactly what happened with Orson Welles after the release of his masterpiece, which many still consider one of the greatest films of all time.

Happy Friday the 13th! Do people celebrate Friday the 13th? Or is it just the date that Jason Voorhees ventures to Camp Crystal Lake to murder debaucherous youth? Either way, it’s a significant date in terms of this week’s new releases featured on the latest episode of The Playlist Podcast. LISTEN: Director Max Winkler Talks ‘Jungleland,’ Working With Charlie Hunnam & Lazer Tag [The Playlist Podcast] This week, Charles, Mike, and Brian discuss two new films, the bodyswap slasher, “Freaky,” which timed its release perfectly with this Friday the 13th.

“Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” and “La La Land” were egregiously overrated, ego-driven projects that didn’t honor Los Angeles so much as their own directors. Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” on Netflix was a tacky mess.

David Fincher is infamous for being a very meticulous, detail-oriented filmmaker. Over the years, actors and crew members have spoken out about how difficult it is to work with the director because of his propensity for forcing people to do dozens of takes for a scene.

While filmmaker David Fincher made a movie for 20th Century Fox in 2014, the thriller “Gone Girl,” it’s easy to forget that by and large, the director’s unofficial home for the majority of his projects since 2013 has been Netflix. He helped put the streaming network on the original programming map with the then-pioneering “House Of Cards” (2013), which he co-executive produced and directed select episodes of, he was the director and key creative lead/defacto showrunner on “Mindhunter” (2017-2019) and he brought the company and co-produced the animated “Love, Death, and Robots” series (2019), with filmmaker and longtime collaborator Tim Miller.

If you read enough posts on this website, you will begin to understand that many of us are huge fans of David Fincher. Of course, that’s not unique to us, at all.

When Gary Oldman staggers onto an MGM film set as hungover screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in Mank and Louis B.

Also Read: 'Mank' Film Review: David Fincher Sumptuously Spins the 'Citizen Kane' Origin StorySet in 1930s Hollywood, “Mank” grapples with the cinematic controversy over whom was most responsible for “Citizen Kane” — director and star Orson Welles or his satirist writing partner Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Citizen Kane (perhaps you've heard of it?) is a lodestar for technical and creative innovation in mainstream cinema, and the guy did it at the age of 25. Not too shabby.Welles's thinly veiled and highly unauthorized biography of William Randolph Hearst, a media titan the likes of which there is no parallel for today, was immediately controversial.

Watch Video: Gary Oldman Charms His Way Through 1930s Hollywood in David Fincher's 'Mank' TrailerBut starry-eyed fans of American cinema’s golden age who shunned “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” because they didn’t want to know about the sex lives of their favorite leading men and ladies, and who avoided “Trumbo” because they didn’t want to be reminded that the studios aided and abetted the Blacklist, will have to deal with the Finchers’ evocation of the deeply reactionary politics of the moguls that created the movie business.Like “Kane” itself, “Mank” jumps around in time and space, from the Vacaville bungalow where Mank, out of favor with the studios, pounded out the “Kane” script with the help of hard-working assistant Mrs.

David Fincher’s portrait of the “Citizen Kane” screenwriter is pretty but baffling, an origin story with little to offer under its shiny surface.

Well, at least we still have movies – even if theaters are still relatively no-go zones. For all its ensuing stress, November has a strong list of films on its slate, some of which have already built significant buzz following rounds on the film festival circuit this year (some of which even premiered in 2019, approximately 20 years ago.) In the line-up, there’s a return of David Fincher, some of the finest animation in recent years, leading performances from perennial favorite Carrie Coon, and Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as lovers.

Before we begin, it should be noted that reviews for David Fincher‘s much anticipated new film “Mank” are currently embargoed. In that context, we’re only here to just discuss the “Netflix International Pictures” release as a potential Oscar contender.

Much has been said already about Netflix‘s theatrical releases. Some feel like events you know about (“The Irishman,” “Marriage Story“), others under-the-radar things will little-publicized dates (the recent “The Trial Of The Chicago 7“).

Now that Netflix has begun to allow sneak peeks at “Mank,” David Fincher’s drama about screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and the writing of “Citizen Kane,” it’s clearer than ever that the film will be a major player at the 93rd Academy Awards.