Kathryn Bigelow is back, and in a big way. Deadline reports that the female director returns with her first movie since 2017’s “Detroit” for an untitled Netflix feature. What’s more, Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson are in talks to star a trifecta no one knew they needed until now.

READ MORE: Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Film Will Be A Political Thriller About A Missle Attack On The US

A plot and title remain under wraps, but the film will be a thriller set in the White House as a national crisis unfolds.  

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It’s a bit ridiculous to think about how it’s been nearly seven years since Kathryn Bigelow’s most recent film project, “Detroit.” Bigelow is too good of a filmmaker to take this long between projects. Well, it appears the filmmaker has a new project on deck, which will hopefully mark her return to filmmaking.

According to a report from Puck, Kathryn Bigelow is set to make a Netflix political thriller about the White House’s response to ballistic missiles being shot at the United States.

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In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, Editor-In-Chief Rodrigo Perez steps inside “Echo 3,” Apple TV+’s new ten-part drama mini-series from Academy Award-winner Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Detroit”).

An action-packed thriller set in South America, “Echo 3” is essentially a family drama, a military espionage actioner, and a kidnapping drama with political intrigue.

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The last film from Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker“) was the period drama “Detriot” that was released back in 2017. The filmmaker has finally found her next project, a genre picture that will be made for Netflix.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the is film said to be “eyeing a budget north of $100 million” and will see Bigelow work alongside seasoned screenwriter David Koepp, who will adapt his upcoming novel “Aurora” for the feature.

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With the COVID-19 numbers spiking in the US, it’s clear that people aren’t following some of the most basic preventative measures, including wearing a face mask. Of course, without getting into the political weeds too much, you can probably chalk up a lot of this anti-mask sentiment to the President’s vocal disapproval of masks. But regardless of how we arrived at this situation, it’s the reality we live with in the US. And in New York, the state’s leader, Governor Andrew Cuomo, is teaming with some Hollywood heavyweights to encourage people to “mask up.”

READ MORE: New Study Deems Going To A Cinema As “High Risk” During The Pandemic & Worse Than Flying On A Plane

In a series of PSAs being released in New York this month, the state is trying to encourage folks to wear face masks with the “Mask Up America” initiative.

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In the last 10 years, Kathryn Bigelow has set a gold standard for us to judge her work by. Sure, her latest, “Detroit,” might not have deserved to belong next to landmarks such as “The Hurt Locker,” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” but taken on its own merits, this was staggering and visceral filmmaking, especially its “piece-de-resistance” which is set in the Algiers Motel and feels like a poetic metaphor for the incalculable years of police brutality towards African-Americans.

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As Peak TV expands beyond what we thought was even possible — what was the last count, more than 420 scripted dramas? — top shelf filmmakers continue to migrate to the medium because networks are voracious for content and willing to throw the kind of money around that movie studios are reluctant to do (which is why they’re falling behind, frankly).

READ MORE: Kathryn Bigelow & Adam McKay Get Pilot Orders At HBO, Guillermo Del Toro & Kevin Macdonald Head To Amazon

One of those filmmakers is Kathryn Bigelow of “The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and this summer’s most recent “Detroit.” Last summer, HBO ordered a pilot of her new drama “Mogadishu, Minnesota,” then known as “The Recruiters.” The show revolved around hidden world of Jihadi recruitment, although it was also described as a family drama about Somalis in Minneapolis.

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With the next James Bond movie officially set for 2019, the process of locking down a director is underway, with Yann Demange, Denis Villenueve and David MacKenzie all in the running. However, in the decades-long history of the franchise, there has never been a woman behind the camera, but it hasn’t been for a lack of trying.

READ MORE: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Detroit’ Is An Uneven, But Powerful Docudrama [Review]

Variety reveals that back when Amy Pascal was running Sony, longtime distributors of the James Bond flicks, she “urged” Kathryn Bigelow to direct a James Bond movie.

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With both “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have perfected stories about career-driven, obsessive protagonists who, after finding themselves out of their field or completing their decade-long task, are left with nothing but the feeling of “now what?” That same feeling permeates “Detroit,” albeit in a much different — and sadder — way.

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We wondered, when Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” was set for a late-summer release, if it might mean that the film was a bit of a misfire — often, seemingly awards-baity stuff like this, especially coming from a director with two Best Picture nominees in a row (and one winner), is held for the fall. Was it a sign that the film was more “K-19: The Widowmaker” than “The Hurt Locker?”

But reviews have hit for the film ahead of its opening (look for ours in the next hour or two), and they suggest that Bigelow and writing partner Mark Boal have delivered again with their look at the 1968 Detroit Riots, and the Algiers Motel Incident that took place during them that resulted in the death of three black teenagers.

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Will Kathryn Bigelow once again find herself in the Oscar conversation following “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty“? That’s the big question surrounding “Detroit,” which is forgoing any big festival premieres or key fall season release dates, to land right in the middle of summer. But the bow makes sense, giving the explosive true story at its core.

With an ensemble that includes (deep breath) John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack Reynor, Ben O’Toole, Joseph David Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Leon Thomas III, Nathan Davis Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley, Gbenga Akinnabve, Chris Chalk, Jeremy Strong, Laz Alonzo, Austin Hebert, Miguel Pimentel, Kris Davis, John Krasinski and Anthony Mackie, Bigelow’s film tells the story of civil unrest that lit Detroit like a fuse.

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Kathryn Bigelow has spent the latter part of her career making films that vibrate with the pulse of the nation. “The Hurt Locker” zeroed in on the fallout from the Iraq War, “Zero Dark Thirty” brought audiences inside the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and now her latest film “Detroit,” about racial conflict in the city in the late ’60s, is strikingly relevant.

An absolutely staggering cast including John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jason Mitchell, Anthony Mackie, Will Poulter, Jacob Latimore, Joseph David-Jones, Algee Smith, Ben O’Toole, Jack Reynor, Kaitlyn Dever, Hannah Murray, Jeremy Strong, Chris Chalk, Austin Hébert, Ephraim Sykes, Laz Alonso, Nathan Davis Jr., Malcolm David Kelley, Peyton Alex Smith and Leon Thomas III, make up the crime drama that’s set against the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five haunting summer days in 1967.

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Nearly three years ago, we got very excited when it was announced that “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” director Kathryn Bigelow was going to helm “The True American” starring Tom Hardy. However, the project didn’t get in front of cameras, and honestly, we kind of forgot about it. But it’s kicking back to life, with an exciting new name in the director’s seat.

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The smoke of the SXSW Film Festival is fading, and the spring bloom of the Tribeca Film Festival is around the corner. And like they do every year, the organizers have put together a series of terrific talks with some heavyweight filmmakers and creative talent, and they’re really bringing the goods this April.

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Scarlett Johansson, Noah Baumbach, Dustin Hoffman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Tom Hanks, and more will participate in a series of conversations that should prove tremendously fascinating and entertaining.

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It feels like spring is the best time to be a cinema lover: the Oscars and all the attendant politicking and campaigning are in the rear-view mirror and the noisy blockbuster summer has not yet kicked into gear. In this mood of thankfulness, our thoughts tend to turn to Cannes aka Cinephile Christmas in May, as we start to wonder which of our Most Anticipated 2017 titles might show up on the Croisette. So while it’s still a way off, seeing as anticipation is almost as enjoyable as the festival itself, we’re bringing you this early list of the films we hope most will make it into the selection this year.

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Well, the 2016-2017 Oscar season is finally done after a remarkable twist ending led to a genuinely groundbreaking and thoroughly deserved Best Picture winner in “Moonlight.” But before we put the awards season to rest completely, we wanted to take a look, as we always do at this time of year, to next year’s prospects with our annual Premature Predictions.

Yes, we know, the last thing that some of you want to think of right now is next year’s awards season.

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There’s now less than a month until Christmas, and after a start last week with our look at the Best Posters and Best Trailers of the year, this week commences in earnest our annual smorgasbord of movie love that is our annual Playlist year-end features marathon. We’ll be looking at the best and worst of films, performances, sequences, cinematography, soundtracks and more across the next few weeks, which will serve as a reminder that 2016 was a pretty strong year at the movies.

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It is, how shall we put this, not a huge week for new releases, and the movie news cycle seems to be taking a little bit of a breather in between TIFF and the New York Film Festival. So we thought we’d take this opportunity to attempt a more ambitious, wide-ranging week-long feature, and one that we’ve been batting around internally for a while now — our official and definitive and unimpeachably correct (!!) ranking of the 100 currently working filmmakers we’re most excited about.

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If you think of one word when you think of the actor John Krasinski, it’s probably ‘adorable.’ He was deeply lovable in his breakout role in “The Office,” he’s been likable in big-screen film outings like “Away We Go,” “It’s Complicated and his own directorial outing “The Hollars,” and he’s decidedly swoonsome in his real-life romance with wife Emily Blunt.

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Kathryn Bigelow‘s upcoming film sounds like a project that clearly resonates with our racially charged times. But even divorced from what it’s all about, the cast she’s putting together is enough to intrigue us. So far, John Boyega, Will Poulter, Ben O’Toole, and Jack Reynor have all signed up for the flick, and now the director has called up an old pal for his talents.

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If Kathryn Bigelow established her early career on genre flicks like “Blue Steel,” “Point Break,” and “Strange Days,” her pivot in the latter stages toward socially and politically relevant work has been fascinating. It also helps that the movies have been really, really good too. Of course, the Oscar winning “The Hurt Locker” marks the first part of this shift, with the followup “Zero Dark Thirty” confirming Bigelow’s desire to tackle stories capturing the current climate.

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The world is incontrovertibly a better place now that John Boyega is a movie star. It took longer than it should have —the actor made a scorching debut performance in Joe Cornish’s “Attack The Block” a few years back, but subsequent projects either failed to happen or mostly disappeared. But then he was cast as Finn in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” and now millions globally have been exposed to his charm and charisma.

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HBO is in the midst of some upheaval at the moment, with a string of projects that have been scuttled, and one high profile drama (“Vinyl“) getting a serious makeover, so the first move from new programming president Casey Bloys, replacing the departed veteran Michael Lombardo, would need to be a strong one. It would have to be an indication that HBO is getting back to the business of making some of the best television around, with top-tier talent, and credit to Bloys, he’s made it clear that the network is continuing to chase high quality television.

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Watch: 8-Minute Video Essay Ranks The 20 Greatest Films Directed By Women

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The 10 Best & 10 Worst Follow-Ups To Best Picture Oscar Winners

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