Holt McCallany is enjoying a career renaissance right now thanks to “The Iron Claw,” but let’s not pretend this hasn’t been going on for a while now. McCallany’s recognition is well-deserved, with top-notch performances over the past decade in “Blackhat,” “Nightmare Alley,” and “Wrath Of Man,” among others. But his most memorable and accalimed role may be in David Fincher‘s shortlived but much beloved Netflix series “Mindhunter” as FBI agent Bill Tench.

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While 2023 is coming to a close, one of the last major (largely) unseen and still super anticipated movies of the year is “The Iron Claw.” From filmmaker Sean Durkin, known for “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” the U.K. TV drama “Southcliffe,” and “The Nest,” his latest is a wrestling drama about the Von Erich Brothers.

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As Zac Efron, who stars in the movie, says, the Von Erich brothers were the first rock star family of wrestlers out of Texas.

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What happens when you win the Best Picture for your surreal but enchanting and romantic woman-falls-for-a-Merman movie? Well, if you’re Guillermo del Toro and your movie is “The Shape Of Water,” you get a kind of blank check for your next project and a whole hell of a lot of actors that probably already wanted to work with you, lining up to work with you. Case in point, after “Shape Of Water,” del Toro was able to make “Nightmare Alley,” and the cast?

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I’ve been hearing for months something that Deadline has seemingly confirmed tonight without actually saying it outright, but suggesting as much: Netflix’s crime thriller “Mindhunter” is over and David Fincher got a little exhausted with a very lengthy shoot on location away from home.

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The writing is really on the wall in this report and this story already follows one that said the season was “on hold.” The third season contract renewals for all the principal cast members— Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff—have lapsed and thus, as of right now, the show is technically kind of done.

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This could be the motto that filmmaker David Fincher first applied to his Netflix series, “Mindhunter,” employing similar dank aesthetics, obsessions with serial killers and analogous procedural-like inquiries, the series was almost a second take on the approach of 2007’s “Zodiac.” While that drama was criminally overlooked at the time, “Mindhunter,” a similarly fixated look at serial killers from a new FBI and psychological evaluation perspective, has been a great success so far.

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Stories of David Fincher on set are legendary. Based on pretty much everything you hear from actors who have worked with the director over the decades, it’s clear that Fincher has very specific ideas about how to shoot a film or TV series. That is to say that the man is meticulous in ways that would make other filmmakers’ jaws hit the floor. And according to Holt McCallany, one of the stars of Fincher’s Netflix series “Mindhunter,” the stories are true but also explain why the director is one of the best in the business.

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Few directors enjoy documenting bureaucratic process quite like David Fincher, especially when it comes to tracking down serial killers. His 2007 film “Zodiac” explored the life-wrecking obsessive tendencies of those tracking down the Zodiac Killer in San Francisco. Despite a handful of unforgettably harrowing scenes, “Zodiac” is a dense procedural. In 2017, the director of “Zodiac” and “Seven” resumed his dive into the mind of serial killers with the first season of the surprising Netflix show “Mindhunter.” Now, Fincher is back with a trailer for season 2 of “Mindhunter.”

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The first season, written by showrunner Joe Penhall, followed Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as they interview imprisoned serial killers with the hope of applying their new knowledge to open investigations.

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One of Netflix’s most popular series is set to return when “Mindhunters” comes back for its second season.

The crime thriller had its second season announced back in 2017, and since then had been lying dormant, until executive producer David Fincher, a veteran director of films such as “Zodiac,” “Se7en” and “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” appeared on KCRW’s ‘The Treatment’ podcast and revealed the release date of the latest season.

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The common narrative is that Warner Bros., upon seeing the blowback from “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” started pivoting to toward a lighter tone for their superhero franchise. Even DC Films honcho Geoff Johns declared the films needed more “heart, humor, and heroics” and said that the goal was to “make the movies fun.” However, one is beginning to wonder if anybody involved with these movies even knows what they want.

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Despite “Gone Girl” being one of the biggest hits of his career, it’s been a tough few years for David Fincher. He looked set to capitalize on the success of that movie, and the peak TV boom, with two HBO series: the semi-autobiographical 80s music-video-world dramedy “Videosynchrazy,” and the British conspiracy thriller remake “Utopia.” But budgetary issues and creative clashes saw production scrapped midway through the first season of the former, and the plug pulled on the eve of the pilot, which would have starred Rooney Mara, of the latter.

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We just dropped our Fall TV Preview: 25 Must-See Shows, and it goes without saying that David Fincher‘s “Mindhunter” is there. The director is behind one of the best serial killer films of all time with his measured, dread-filled “Zodiac,” and the same tone seems to permeate his upcoming Netflix series. And a new teaser shows that careful balance of sober drama and sardonic humor that Fincher is bringing to the table.

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The tale is familiar: a man gets sent to prison and must learn the inner workings and street code of the hard knock life behind bars in order to survive. But in the case of “Shot Caller,” a pretty decent cast is assembled for what looks like an otherwise standard run through this sort of material.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Emory Cohen, Jeffrey Donovan, Evan Jones, Benjamin Bratt, and Holt McCallany star in the film about an innocent man who gets locked up, and soon becomes transformed by his incarceration.

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With Paramount‘s accounting department already steeling themselves for the reported $115 million loss they’re going to take on “Monster Trucks,” it kinda makes you wonder why they’re going through the whole charade of cutting trailers and releasing the movie. But I guess there are some contractual obligations to be met. At any rate, a new trailer for the film is here, and yes, it still looks terrible.

Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Holt McCallany, Barry Pepper, Tucker Albrizzi, Danny Glover, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Frank Whaley, and Thomas Lennon will all be eager to bury this on their CV, with the movie following a young man and the rubbery creature who becomes his friend, and gets him out of various spots of trouble.

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Review: 'The Search For One-Eyed Jimmy' Is A Remnant Of A More Colorful Time In Indie Filmmaking

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