Every year, we think, “Okay, we’re not doing 100 films this year. F that!” But after much consideration, we’re gluttons for punishment. The annual 100 Most Anticipated Films of [Insert Year Here], in this case 2023, is always a huge beast, a herculean task, and one that makes us lose our minds a little bit, tbh. And it’s always fascinating to see what we rank high or low, and then either becomes much more important a film to that year (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,” “The Fabelmans” not ranked all that high in 2022, but some of the most important films of the year) and or things we rank really high that turn out to either be duds, or just non-starters (now, of course, anticipating something and whether it’s actually great are two different things).

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Putting together the 100 Most Anticipated Films list is a beast in any year. Still, in the new accelerated age of streaming with HBO Max, Apple TV+, Amazon, Netflix, and all the new players popping up every single day, it seems, the task becomes more and more daunting and nearly impossible (we could have easily gone to 200 this year).

So we’re post-COVID, but oops, not-yet post-COVID, but somehow movies have survived, even if the theatrical market becomes a more challenging and riskier gambit.

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I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. Aside from the election result, Trashfire 2020™ was a shitty year. And a weird and disorienting year thanks to COVID-19 and having to shelter-in-place, quarantine, and social distance from one another blah, blah, blah coronavirus f*cked us hard. Movies certainly took it in the teeth this year, and especially the theatrical industrial complex, which feels like it’s on its last legs. But regardless of what happens next for theaters, people are going to continue making and releasing movies.

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What’s going on with Terrence Malick’s “The Last Planet” movie about Jesus? Well, not much publicly anyhow. As usual, most of it is under the radar, but a new sign suggests it’s entering the post-production stages and perhaps inching towards completion (though with Malick, you never know). 

Film Soundtrack Reporter says Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has written the original score for the upcoming drama. She is known for writing the score to Theodoros Angelopoulos’ 1995 Grand Jury Prize Cannes winner “Ulysses’ Gaze” and some of her existing music was used in both “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and Malick’s own “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey” (the longer version with Cate Blanchett narration that never came out theatrically beyond film festivals).

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With “A Hidden Life” finally coming to theaters later this month, the world has been graced with yet another incredible film from the master filmmaker Terrence Malick. Thankfully, it appears that we won’t have to wait long for his next film, “The Last Planet,” though we don’t really know what to expect with the new project.

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However, thanks to a new report from Variety, who spoke with one of the film’s producers, Karim Debbagh, “The Last Planet” is definitely a film with Biblical inspiration but maybe not in the way you might be expecting.

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You like movies, we like movies, right? Yes, we know you’re trying to wind down the year, think about the best of 2019, the best of the decade and whatnot, but we also like to look ahead. Every year, we put together our 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year list and we’ve done the same once again for 2020.

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It will be another big year, and yes, lots of tentpoles and superhero films, blockbusters, and whatnot, but for us, there’s much more to look forward to than just the next Marvel thing (though, hell, we usually enjoy those too).

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After what seemed like an eternity between films, with “A Hidden Life” crawling to completion, all signs are pointing to filmmaker Terrence Malick working incredibly fast on his latest film, the mysterious “The Last Planet.” Well, after months of teasing, it appears that we not only know the main cast of his upcoming Jesus Christ film, but we know some of the roles that the actors will be playing, including a few of the good guys and the biggest villain of them all.

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It’s a great time to be a Terrence Malick fan. After an era of his career where people started to debate the quality of his recent works, it would appear, thanks to the rapturous reception of “A Hidden Life” from this year’s Cannes, that the filmmaker is firing on all cylinders once again. And he’s not slowing down anytime soon, as he’s already beginning work on what is reportedly his next feature, “The Last Planet.”

And thanks to a couple of new reports, Malick is deep into production on the film, with cast members being announced.

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After the seemingly rapturous response to Terrence Malick’s new film “A Hidden Life” when it premiered at this year’s Cannes, it was clear that Fox Searchlight had to know that it has something special on its hands. With many calling “A Hidden Life” a return to form for the iconic director, it’s no surprise that people already began predicting a strong awards season run.

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“Terrence Malick wrote me a letter when he saw [‘Silence’], and he said, ‘What does Christ want from us?’,” Martin Scorsese revealed during the Tribeca Film Festival. The question of grace, life, spirituality, creation, the meaning of life and all of our big questions about the universe have consumed Malick’s entire career, but especially in its second half kicking off with “The Tree Of Life.

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