Spielberg’s latest film is set in the post-World War II era Arizona, and it centers on a young man who uses the power of film to uncover a shattering family secret. It’s inspired by the director’s own childhood and he repeatedly described it as his most personal film to date.

The Fabelmans is Spielberg’s first film to ever premiere at TIFF, and the critics and the audience were impressed by it in equal measure. In addition to receiving rave reviews, it also defeated Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to win TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

What does this victory say about the film’s future at the upcoming Academy Awards? As a matter of fact, quite a lot! Many of the previous People’s Choice Awards either won or received nominations for the best picture. Most recently, Green Book and Nomadland, both walked away with the Oscars, and The Fabelmansi could experience the same fate after its victory in Toronto.

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Variety was first to report that Steven Spielberg is handing the helming reins on Indiana Jones 5  to director James Mangold, who’s reportedly in talks to land the gig. 

This is the first time in the franchise’s 39-year history that it won’t be directed by Spielberg.

Mangold’s directorial titled include Ford v Ferrari, Wolverine, and Logan. 

According to a source, “The decision to hand over directing duties was entirely Steven’s,” adding that, “he felt now was the perfect time to let a new director and a new generation give their perspective to the overall story and this film.”

The new film written by David Koepp is set to hit theaters on July 9, 2021.

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Per multiple outlets, the third installment in the Band of Brothers and The Pacific saga will be the first series produced in-house by Apple.

The duo will executive produce Masters of the Air, a miniseries that focuses on American bombers during the war. Gary Goetzman, their collaborator on the two previous installments, will also executive produce, with Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone and Spielberg’s Amblin Television producing the series with Apple.

While Band of Brothers and The Pacific aired on HBO, this time around the premium cabler decided to pass on the project. “After careful consideration, HBO decided not to move forward with Masters of the Air. We look forward to our next collaboration with Playtone and Amblin,” HBO said in a statement.

Apple TV+ launches on November 1.

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Production on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story officially ended on September 28, and to mark the occasion the prolific director took to social media and shared some words of gratitude. 

“This has been a journey without precedence: a joyful, stunning, moving, endlessly surprising encounter with the story and score of one of the world’s greatest musicals,” Spielberg wrote. “My brilliantly talented, fiercely committed, generous and apparently inexhaustible cast and crew of hundreds have given our film everything they’ve got, and already I can say that the film we’ll be releasing on December 18, 2020, owes everything to them as does its immensely grateful director.”

“The city lent us its beauty and its energy, and we drew deeply upon its grand, multicultural, multifaceted spirit,” he added. “To the people of New York and Paterson, thanks not only for putting up with our trailers, tents, cranes, and mid-street dance sequences; from the bottom of my heart, thanks for the warm welcomes we encountered everywhere, from pedestrians and policemen and neighborhoods and kids. We couldn’t have made our musical without you.”

West Side Story stars Ansel Elgort (Tony), Rachel Zegler (Maria), Ariana DeBose (Anita), and David Alvarez (Bernardo). 

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The actress’s character from the West Side Story remake was unveiled by 20th Century Fox Saturday via social media. Anita is the leader of the Sharks Bernardo’s girlfriend in the story, which explores love and rivalry in 1957 New York.

Rita Moreno played the original Anita in the 1961 classic. Moreno scored a best-supporting actress Oscar win for her portrayal. Moreno is also part of the remake and is set to star as Valentina as well as serving as one of the film’s executive producer.

The highly anticipated remake from Steven Spielberg also stars Ansel Elgort (Tony), Rachel Zegler (Maria), Ana Isabelle (Rosalia), Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank), Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke), and Curtiss Cook (Abe). 

Penning the script is award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Tony Award-winner Justin Peck is the remake’s choreographer. Gustavo Dudamel will helm the recording of Leonard Bernstein’s iconic score from a score by composer and conductor David Newman.

Check out the image released below. 

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A first look image was unveiled earlier this week by Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment via social media.

Spielberg’s upcoming musical adaptation is based on the original 1957 Broadway musical, written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein. It is set for release on December 18th, 2020.

The image features stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony and Maria as well as members of the rival gangs the Sharks and the Jets. 

Pictured left is the Jets members Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook) and Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); and Baby John (Patrick Higgins). On the right is Maria’s brother and Sharks leader Bernardo (David Alvarez) and other Sharks members Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra) and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú).

Spielberg is directing from a script penned Tony Kushner. David Newman will be arranging the score for the new adaptation and Gustavo Dudamel will helm the recording of the score. 

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The acclaimed director is working on a new project for Quibi (Quite Bites streaming service)—a horror series that will be available for viewing only when it’s dark. Spielberg challenged Quibi creator Jeffrey Katzenberg and engineers to make it so his content would only be available to stream when it’s dark outside.

Spielberg’s After Dark will feature an in-app clock that will release a new episode for viewing each night, according to the user’s location.

“Steven Spielberg came in, and said, ‘I have a super scary story I want to do.’ He’s writing it himself. He hasn’t [written anything in a while] so getting him to write something is fantastic,” said Katzenberg. He added that Spielberg has already penned “five or six episodes of a 10 or 12 chapter story.”

Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Catherine Hardwick, Anna Kendrick, Doug Liman, Laurence Fishburne and Antoine Fuqua have all taken some part in shows currently in the works for Quibi.

The news were announced at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada by Katzenberg.

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Following Ready Player One‘s haul this weekend, it is believed that Spielberg’s global total earnings has been brought to $10.1 billion.

What is particularly impressive about Spielberg is that going back to 1975, only two of his movies have failed to cross the $100 million mark, and these are 1941, which totaled $92.5 million and Always, which earned $74.1 million.

Spielberg’s success has been helped by the fact he is one of the hardest workers in Hollywood and has sometimes produced two movies per year.

Even though Spielberg may now be 71 years old, we have not seen the last of him, and he still has a few more blockbusters in the works.

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Spielberg has long been a supporter of women empowerment and is also a supporter of Time’s Up movement for gender equality.

Interestingly, he met his wife Kate Capshaw in 1984 when she starred in his second Indiana Jones film and the two went on to wed in 1991.

“We’d have to change the name from Jones to Joan,” Spielberg said. “And there would be nothing wrong with that.” He acknowledged that some fans might be angry at the massive change in the iconic film star’s gender.

“I have been very lucky to be influenced by women, several of whom I have just loved madly — my mom and my wife,” he said.

Filming for the fifth Indiana Jones film will begin in April 2019 but no changes have yet to have been revealed.

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The Wrestling icon has landed a major role in the movie and will star alongside Hailee Steinfeld.

The film is set in the year 1987 and features Steinfeld playing the character of Charlie, a young soon to be 18-year-old woman who discovers Bumblebee in a battered state.

However, she soon discovers what it is capable of.

The movie will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Michael Bay- the two men who directed the last five Transformers movies, along with executive producers Steven Spielberg, Brian Goldner, Mark Vahradian and Chris Brigham.

Cena said: “You have to be dramatic with a stick. In the WWE, we call it working with a broomstick. You can get in there and have a match with a broomstick. I think it’s just a different method to tell stories. That’s what I enjoy most. Do I love to laugh? Yes! But what I enjoy most is to be able to use your imagination to tell a story. So, it was a different challenge, but I loved it. I hope everybody sees that and they dig it.”

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Spielberg’s latest film is set in the post-World War II era Arizona, and it centers on a young man who uses the power of film to uncover a shattering family secret. It’s inspired by the director’s own childhood and he repeatedly described it as his most personal film to date.

The Fabelmans is Spielberg’s first film to ever premiere at TIFF, and the critics and the audience were impressed by it in equal measure. In addition to receiving rave reviews, it also defeated Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to win TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

What does this victory say about the film’s future at the upcoming Academy Awards? As a matter of fact, quite a lot! Many of the previous People’s Choice Awards either won or received nominations for the best picture. Most recently, Green Book and Nomadland, both walked away with the Oscars, and The Fabelmansi could experience the same fate after its victory in Toronto.

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Variety was first to report that Steven Spielberg is handing the helming reins on Indiana Jones 5  to director James Mangold, who’s reportedly in talks to land the gig. 

This is the first time in the franchise’s 39-year history that it won’t be directed by Spielberg.

Mangold’s directorial titled include Ford v Ferrari, Wolverine, and Logan. 

According to a source, “The decision to hand over directing duties was entirely Steven’s,” adding that, “he felt now was the perfect time to let a new director and a new generation give their perspective to the overall story and this film.”

The new film written by David Koepp is set to hit theaters on July 9, 2021.

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Per multiple outlets, the third installment in the Band of Brothers and The Pacific saga will be the first series produced in-house by Apple.

The duo will executive produce Masters of the Air, a miniseries that focuses on American bombers during the war. Gary Goetzman, their collaborator on the two previous installments, will also executive produce, with Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone and Spielberg’s Amblin Television producing the series with Apple.

While Band of Brothers and The Pacific aired on HBO, this time around the premium cabler decided to pass on the project. “After careful consideration, HBO decided not to move forward with Masters of the Air. We look forward to our next collaboration with Playtone and Amblin,” HBO said in a statement.

Apple TV+ launches on November 1.

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Production on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story officially ended on September 28, and to mark the occasion the prolific director took to social media and shared some words of gratitude. 

“This has been a journey without precedence: a joyful, stunning, moving, endlessly surprising encounter with the story and score of one of the world’s greatest musicals,” Spielberg wrote. “My brilliantly talented, fiercely committed, generous and apparently inexhaustible cast and crew of hundreds have given our film everything they’ve got, and already I can say that the film we’ll be releasing on December 18, 2020, owes everything to them as does its immensely grateful director.”

“The city lent us its beauty and its energy, and we drew deeply upon its grand, multicultural, multifaceted spirit,” he added. “To the people of New York and Paterson, thanks not only for putting up with our trailers, tents, cranes, and mid-street dance sequences; from the bottom of my heart, thanks for the warm welcomes we encountered everywhere, from pedestrians and policemen and neighborhoods and kids. We couldn’t have made our musical without you.”

West Side Story stars Ansel Elgort (Tony), Rachel Zegler (Maria), Ariana DeBose (Anita), and David Alvarez (Bernardo). 

The post “West Side Story” Wraps Production appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The actress’s character from the West Side Story remake was unveiled by 20th Century Fox Saturday via social media. Anita is the leader of the Sharks Bernardo’s girlfriend in the story, which explores love and rivalry in 1957 New York.

Rita Moreno played the original Anita in the 1961 classic. Moreno scored a best-supporting actress Oscar win for her portrayal. Moreno is also part of the remake and is set to star as Valentina as well as serving as one of the film’s executive producer.

The highly anticipated remake from Steven Spielberg also stars Ansel Elgort (Tony), Rachel Zegler (Maria), Ana Isabelle (Rosalia), Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank), Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke), and Curtiss Cook (Abe). 

Penning the script is award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Tony Award-winner Justin Peck is the remake’s choreographer. Gustavo Dudamel will helm the recording of Leonard Bernstein’s iconic score from a score by composer and conductor David Newman.

Check out the image released below. 

The post “West Side Story”: See Anita’s First Look From the Reboot appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

A first look image was unveiled earlier this week by Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment via social media.

Spielberg’s upcoming musical adaptation is based on the original 1957 Broadway musical, written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein. It is set for release on December 18th, 2020.

The image features stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony and Maria as well as members of the rival gangs the Sharks and the Jets. 

Pictured left is the Jets members Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook) and Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); and Baby John (Patrick Higgins). On the right is Maria’s brother and Sharks leader Bernardo (David Alvarez) and other Sharks members Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra) and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú).

Spielberg is directing from a script penned Tony Kushner. David Newman will be arranging the score for the new adaptation and Gustavo Dudamel will helm the recording of the score. 

The post Check Out a First Look at the “West Side Story” Remake appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The acclaimed director is working on a new project for Quibi (Quite Bites streaming service)—a horror series that will be available for viewing only when it’s dark. Spielberg challenged Quibi creator Jeffrey Katzenberg and engineers to make it so his content would only be available to stream when it’s dark outside.

Spielberg’s After Dark will feature an in-app clock that will release a new episode for viewing each night, according to the user’s location.

“Steven Spielberg came in, and said, ‘I have a super scary story I want to do.’ He’s writing it himself. He hasn’t [written anything in a while] so getting him to write something is fantastic,” said Katzenberg. He added that Spielberg has already penned “five or six episodes of a 10 or 12 chapter story.”

Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Catherine Hardwick, Anna Kendrick, Doug Liman, Laurence Fishburne and Antoine Fuqua have all taken some part in shows currently in the works for Quibi.

The news were announced at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada by Katzenberg.

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Following Ready Player One‘s haul this weekend, it is believed that Spielberg’s global total earnings has been brought to $10.1 billion.

What is particularly impressive about Spielberg is that going back to 1975, only two of his movies have failed to cross the $100 million mark, and these are 1941, which totaled $92.5 million and Always, which earned $74.1 million.

Spielberg’s success has been helped by the fact he is one of the hardest workers in Hollywood and has sometimes produced two movies per year.

Even though Spielberg may now be 71 years old, we have not seen the last of him, and he still has a few more blockbusters in the works.

The post Steven Spielberg Reaches $10.1 Billion Mark with “Ready Player One” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Spielberg has long been a supporter of women empowerment and is also a supporter of Time’s Up movement for gender equality.

Interestingly, he met his wife Kate Capshaw in 1984 when she starred in his second Indiana Jones film and the two went on to wed in 1991.

“We’d have to change the name from Jones to Joan,” Spielberg said. “And there would be nothing wrong with that.” He acknowledged that some fans might be angry at the massive change in the iconic film star’s gender.

“I have been very lucky to be influenced by women, several of whom I have just loved madly — my mom and my wife,” he said.

Filming for the fifth Indiana Jones film will begin in April 2019 but no changes have yet to have been revealed.

The post Steven Spielberg Believes It’s Time for a Female Indiana Jones appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The Wrestling icon has landed a major role in the movie and will star alongside Hailee Steinfeld.

The film is set in the year 1987 and features Steinfeld playing the character of Charlie, a young soon to be 18-year-old woman who discovers Bumblebee in a battered state.

However, she soon discovers what it is capable of.

The movie will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Michael Bay- the two men who directed the last five Transformers movies, along with executive producers Steven Spielberg, Brian Goldner, Mark Vahradian and Chris Brigham.

Cena said: “You have to be dramatic with a stick. In the WWE, we call it working with a broomstick. You can get in there and have a match with a broomstick. I think it’s just a different method to tell stories. That’s what I enjoy most. Do I love to laugh? Yes! But what I enjoy most is to be able to use your imagination to tell a story. So, it was a different challenge, but I loved it. I hope everybody sees that and they dig it.”

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