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Cooper Hoffman, the son of late Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, and singer-songwriter Alana Haim will make their feature acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s San Fernando Valley feature which is set at MGM. They join eight-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper and Bennie Safdie. Cooper Hoffman will play the…

Eight-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in talks for MGM’s untitled Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Deadline first told you that the movie’s domestic release was heading from Focus Features to MGM. There is a chance still that Universal could be involved with the pic’s foreign release, which is being determined. While…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: We hear that Paul Thomas Anderson’s new 1970s San Fernando Valley movie is jumping from Focus Features to MGM. Neither studio would confirm, but we know it’s a deal that’s going down, according to sources. The production is leaving the Universal specialty label that made his Best Picture…

The eight-time Oscar nominated filmmaker is heading back to his San Fernando Valley, CA stomping ground, made popular in his cinematic canon with Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love. Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie which is set to go into production next year under his Ghoulardi Film Company received a…

Paul Thomas Anderson has teamed up with Netflix and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on short film ‘one-reeler’ Anima, which has been made alongside Yorke’s upcoming album of the same name. Described as a “short musical film”, Yorke scores and stars in the “mind-bending visual piece, best played loud.” The film will show…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…

Among this year’s batch of Oscar nominees, a few of the most-discussed surprises came in the form of several nods for Paul Thomas Anderson’s darkly comedic, high-fashion drama Phantom Thread. Among the six nods the film received—including for Best Director and Best Picture—one of those that surprised the least was a…

Reading Paul Thomas Anderson’s script for Phantom Thread for the first time, Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges was reminded of the filmmaker’s seminal Boogie Nights, seeing another world of rich possibilities in front of him. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, a cutting couturier in ’50s…

Approaching renowned composer Jon Brion for Lady Bird, her directorial debut, Greta Gerwig didn’t get into the specifics of his many memorable scores, or which of his works was particularly compelling to her. For Brion, this was a breath of fresh air. Having composed for the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Charlie…

When it came to making a drama thriller about a perfectionist fashion designer, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson reached out to his longtime costume designer of seven films Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread. The film follows Daniel Day-Lewis as British couturier Reynolds Woodcock, who lives a lonely life among his staff…

Jordan Peele’s Get Out has been named best picture of the year by The Boston Online Film Critics Association. Paul Thomas Anderson took the best director award for his Phantom Thread. BOFCA, established in 2012, consists of web-based film critics. A spokesman says this year’s best-of list honors films “running the…

Daniel Day-Lewis is being a bit enigmatic when he says Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread shall be his exit from acting, especially as he mysteriously seems to be blaming the apparently disturbing experience of making the film as Exhibit A for his thespian finale. If that is the case, then at least we will always…