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SHOCKER: Napoleon: The Director's Cut is good! It may be longer, but it improves upon the theatrical version with better pacing, restoring scenes and moments that explain the historical and political reasons for the characters' actions and is also a more complete story that makes director Ridley Scott's true intentions, which is to make an[...]

Apple went into the awards season likely confident they were hitting the awards season from both angles with Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon While the former is getting some awards consideration, said consideration seems to start and end with Lily Gladstone As for Napeolon, while it brought it an all-right $200 million at the worldwide box[...]

The new animated film Wish ends up in third for now, though it's super close with Ridley Scott's Napoleon for second place The historical epic came in at $32.5 million for the five-day, while Wish scored $31.7 They might flip with each other when the actuals come out on Monday morning Still, Disney has to[...]

Napoleon might prove that no one can direct cinematic battle scenes better than Ridley Scott, but the rest of the film falls short, and those bombastic battle scenes cannot compensate for it. Director: Ridley Scott Summary: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through[...]

A few days ago, Sony Pictures and Apple shared a scene from Napoleon, and it was the scene they used to introduce us to the movie during the Sony presentation at CinemaCon back in April It's the Battle of Austerlitz, and it spotlights Napoleon's brutal strategy against the Russians The clip is pretty freaking amazing, as[...]

When Sony Pictures and Apple first showed us some footage from Napoleon back in April at CinemaCon, we talked about an awesome-looking battle on a frozen lake that doesn't go well for the opposing forces It seems that Sony knows that will be one of the scenes everyone is talking about because they released about two[...]

You don't bet against Ridley Scott for a reason. Napoleon is one of the two big films that AppleTV+ is putting out this year, with Killers of the Flower Moon pulling in great reviews, and while the box office hasn't been amazing, it's likely good enough for Apple and Paramount, all things considered. Napoleon is a film[...]

Yesterday, we got a new look at Apple and Sony's upcoming Napoleon from Ridley Scott There were many things that looked awesome about the film, but we finally got to see some more of Vanessa Kirby as Josephine We love a lady who knows what she wants and also knows when she has a man wrapped around[...]

Sony Pictures and Apple dropped the second trailer for Napoleon today, featuring a lot of Vanessa Kirby She could frankly tell me to do anything, and I would do it while on my knees, and that seems to be her entire character in this film as well, so wins all around. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

The first of the two big Apple Original Film releases is coming out this weekend with Killers of the Flower Moon, but Sony and Apple also have their film next month with Napoleon Of the two films, Napoleon probably has the chance of generating a wider audience because people seem to like when Ridley Scott does historical films [mostly[...]

That seems like it is the case when it comes to Napoleon and Ridley Scott Scott told Total Film recently that his director's cut was over four hours long and that the theatrical cut will be distributed in theaters by Sony and the director's cut will be streamed by Apple. "I'm working on it[...]

One would think a film like Napoleon would have been a massive undertaking that would have taken over three months to shoot Still, Scott revealed during the Deadline's Contenders London event that usually, a film like this would have taken 110 days but got it done in only 62. "Normally, a film like this would be[...]

This time, it's the story of Napoleon and all of the insanity that came with that real-life story For Scott, that means planning some massive battle scenes In a new vignette put out by Sony Pictures and AppleTV, that means getting on the ground and recreating these scenes with practical effects and needing to think like[...]

Sony Pictures and AppleTV+ have a big movie on their hands with Napoleon, and the marketing has really started to kick off now that October is finally here October marks the beginning of the fall season, which means the real beginning of the awards season We all know that Napoleon is a film that is gunning[...]

So when we all learned that he would be making a film about Napoleon Bonaparte, we all knew it would be big Everything we have seen from this movie has been massive, and Scott has even compared shooting the massive battle scene to actually planning a battle However, as Scott explained to Entertainment Weekly, the[...]

More amateur directors might be overwhelmed by this, but Sir Ridley Scott has been doing massive war scenes like the ones in Napoleon for a long time He knows as he explained to Entertainment Weekly, that to film a battle well, you have to approach and plan it like, well, a battle. "I can read all the[...]

AppleTV+ is looking to be the one to keep an eye on this awards season with two big movies: Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon Both of the films inked distribution deals with major studios, so despite being AppleTV+ movies, they are getting worldwide theatrical releases while also being on streaming Director Ridley Scott is already[...]

We are seeing this with Zack Snyder with Rebel Moon, and now we are seeing it with Ridley Scott and Napoleon Sir Ridley is no stranger to extended and director's cuts, but he's already putting it out there that Apple should let him release the 270-minute version of Napoleon, a cut that is over four hours long[...]

Napoleon, the latest epic from Ridley Scott, finally has a trailer Starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, Vanessa Kirby as Empress Joséphine, Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras, Ben Miles as Caulaincourt, Ludivine Sagnier as Theresa Cabarrus, Matthew Needham as Lucien Bonaparte, Youssef Kerkour as Marshal Davout, Phil Cornwell as Sanson 'The Bourreau,' Edouard Philipponnat as[...]

Artificial Intelligence based on his late friend's plans, Spielberg will again be giving postmortem life to one of Kubrick's projects that he was never able to see to fruition. Editorial credit: BAKOUNINE / Shutterstock.com Spielberg announced at the Berlin Film Festival that he will be producing Kubrick's planned historical epic about the life of French Military icon[...]

This week, the streamer announced it would be financing a new restoration of Abel Gance's 1927 silent epic Napoleon This is part of Netflix's new partnerships with the French National Film Board (the CNC) and the Cinémathèque Française, a non-profit group devoted to preserving and promoting French cinema culture. "Napoleon vu par Abel Gance" key art[...]