Updated: “The Offer,” Paramount’s limited series about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” came and went in 2022 to barely any fanfare. But instead of another making-of series, Indiewire confirms reports that MRC, the studio behind the series, wants to do a series remake of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation.” What’s more, there’s a director attached, J.C.

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The rub and paradox about Netflix is that the company is a streaming business, first and foremost. The company and the move towards streaming at home have made many critical about how streamers have killed or hurt the theatrical experience. While incontestably true, the phenomenon is not specific to Netflix, nor is it the company’s aim to destroy the theatrical experience (or any streamers). Netflix has bought key movie theaters in New York and L.A.— the Paris Theater in New York and Los Angeles’ Egyptian and Bay—and they used those both as repertory theaters and as a way to screen and highlight Netflix titles on the big screen.

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When Steven Soderbergh first announced his next film, “Kimi,” with Zoe Kravitz for HBO Max — the one that’ll arrive after “No Sudden Move,” which is being released today, not much about it was known. It was dubbed a mystery thriller, written by veteran screenwriter David Koepp, and about an “agoraphobic tech worker that stumbles on some evidence of a violent crime over the course of a routine work project.” Intriguing but still slightly vague.

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One of the greatest achievements in the history of modern-day cinema was legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing and releasing two films in the same year. One was the magnum opus “The Godfather Part II.” The second is another masterwork, “The Conversation” starring Gene Hackman, and while still highly regarded by cinephiles as a masterpiece of paranoia and the prescient notions of privacy, surveillance and the invasive nature of observation, the film, which also serves as a techno-thriller of its day, is still perhaps not as yet well known to mainstream audiences.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s unimpeachable 1970s run is like no other, and it’s responsible for the filmmaker being one of six people in the world who have won two Palme d’Ors and a host of Oscars (he’s won five and was bestowed the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2011; the three ‘Godfather’ films alone make up for nearly 30 nominations). Between 1971 and 1979, the director delivered “The Godfather,” “The Godfather: Part II” and “Apocalypse Now.” But sandwiched between “The Godfather” films, and coming out in the same year as ‘Part II,’ is the relatively underseen “The Conversation.

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5 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Conversation'

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The home entertainment behemoth is also acquiring rights to “Apocalypse Now Redux,” and Coppola’s latest theatrical release, the underseen “Tetro,” which was released on DVD in May, and an early Coppola gem, the unimpeachable “The Conversation,” which will likely receive a generous re-release on video in all formats.

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You still don’t know him unless you’re a total cinephile geek (which hopefully many of you are), but John Cazale only starred in five movies and each one of those films — “The Godfather,” “The Godfather II,” “The Conversation,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “The Deer Hunter” — was nominated for an Oscar Best Picture.

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Best know for his role as the anxious and underappreciated, Fredo Corelone in ‘Godfather’ I and II,’ Cazale’s flame was snuffed out far too early in 1978 when he died of lung cancer before the release of “The Deerhunter.”

The documentary features affectionate testimonials, by his peers and friends, including former girlfriend Meryl Streep, fellow actors and filmmakers Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola (who hired him for three of the five pictures) and modern admirers, Steve Buscemi, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Sam Rockwell among many others.

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Everyone’s inner-pre-pubescent film critic, Sexman has an announcement for all those haters out there, he’s finally got Braces, fuckers! Great, now all he has to do is dig through the yellow pages for a voice coach and tanning salon and he will be on his way to filing in the vacant slot on Ebert and Roeper.[Filmdrunk.com]

Surprise, goth-Queen Helena Bonham Carter discussed her role in next years “Terminator Salvation,” and guess what she isn’t playing someone good.

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