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I'm telling you this story backwards: I can tell you Bob Dylan met with writer-director James Mangold five times when the coming biopic "A Complete Unknown" was being made. Mangold himself told me so at the Gotham Awards on Monday night. Now this ...

Alex Gibney has made dozens of terrific documentaries. So has Lexi Bloom. But Gibney says their film, "The Bibi Files," about the corruption and crimes of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has not gotten one bite from a distributor or a ...

The cozy Metrograph Theater is at the corner of Chinatown and Who-knows-where, but a lot of A-listers showed up tonight for a screening of "Wicked" with Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Peter Dinklage, producer Marc Platt, and director Jon M. Chu. ...

No surprise: the New York Film Critics Circle has given Best Picture to Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist." The film's star, Adrien Brody, is Best Actor. But Corbet, oddly, is not Best Director. That honor went to RaMell Ross for " Nickel Boys." Best ...

Monday night's Gotham Awards were packed with A list stars, notching up the importance of the evening as the opening salvo for Hollywood prizes Among the guests were Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet, Demi Moore, and ...

Yes, "Wicked" is a big hit. Total box office after 11 days is $262 million. That's right over the rainbow. But "Moana 2" has made almost as much in just 6 days: $221 million. "Moana 2" will pass "Wicked" in a day or two at this point. The box office ...

Someone tell L. Frank Baum that "The Wizard of Oz" is the gift that just keeps giving. Yesterday, "Wicked," in which the Wizard becomes a villain after decades of just bumbling around, crossed the $200 Million mark. It's been in release 9 full days ...

It looks like director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise's supernatural thriller, "Deeper," is going forward. At a screening of Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck's documentary, "Gaucho Gaucho," Liman told me last week that he and the "Mission Impossible" ...

Woody Allen turns 89 tomorrow and hasn't lost a step! According to the media in Spain, Woody and wife Soon Yi turned up in Barcelona yesterday. Woody is getting ready to make a new film there. Woody told me last spring he was ready with a new ...

Let's just say the "Moana 2" audience is very animated. Disney's latest release has made $85 million in just three days including previews. On Thanksgiving fans stuffed themselves into theaters to the tune of $28 million. That's a record for animated ...