Ti West
‘Megalopolis’ Star Giancarlo Esposito Says Film “Will Change the Way Filmmakers Look at Filmmaking”
When he learned that Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis had secured a distribution deal with Lionsgate, Giancarlo Esposito was obviously stoked because it meant the highly-publicized passion project would have a chance to reach audiences beginning Sept. 27. But he “specifically” was very excited for Coppola, who has shepherded the project since the 1970s and wound […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Star Mia Goth on Toplining Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy: “It Changed Me Forever”
Much has been made about how filmmaker Ti West has reinvented and refreshed the slasher genre by paying homage to the classics in his A24 trilogy X, Pearl and the upcoming MaXXXine. His leading lady, Mia Goth, agrees with the praise and adds that the back-to-back-to-back gigs have also reshaped something else — her career. […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Mia Goth and Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy Wraps With a Torrid Love Letter to ‘80s Genre Filmmaking
Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon also star in this Tinseltown-set follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl.’
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Halsey Channels Cher in Midriff-Baring Gold Gown as Singer Talks ‘MaXXXine’ and Acting Ambitions
Halsey may be best known for her chart-topping success in the music industry but the Grammy nominated singer-songwriter has been dipping her toes into Hollywood for some time. She had a cameo in Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, appeared in Cameron Crowe’s rocker series Roadies, voiced a lead role as Porsha Crystal in the […]
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‘Maxxxine’: Ti West, Lily Collins Shock Fans with Surprise Screening of New Horror Movie
Ti West and A24 pulled off a killer surprise Thursday night, unveiling an early screening of their upcoming slasher movie Maxxxine to a group of unsuspecting horror fans. The evening was billed as a double feature of West’s X horror series, which includes X and Pearl, the movies that thrust Mia Goth into the role […]
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Mia Goth Heads to Hollywood in A24’s ‘Maxxxine’ Trailer
Look out Hollywood! Maxine Minx has come to town to be a star, and heaven help those who get in her way. Including, presumably, a mysterious killer who has designs on her. A24 has finally dropped the trailer for Maxxxine, the final nail in the proverbial coffin of its hit and acclaimed X horror trilogy […]
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Cannes: Brittany Snow, Lucas Bravo Starring in Holiday Comedy ‘It’s Christmas!’ (Exclusive)
Pitch Perfect stalwart Brittany Snow and Emily in Paris’ Lucas Bravo are starring in It’s Christmas!, a holiday comedy that will be introduced at the Cannes film market. Jamie Adams, the filmmaker behind such indies as She is Love and Black Mountain Poets, wrote and is directing the movie, which recently wrapped production. Newly launched […]
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How Ti West’s ‘X’ Trilogy Shook Up the Indie Business
Ti West’s inspiration for X, his meta slasher film starring Mia Goth, was the independent cinema of the 1970s. Not just the aesthetic style of ’70s horror and soft-core pornography — the plot of X follows a crew trying a shoot a low-budget skin flick in rural Texas only to enrage the Chainsaw Massacre-adjacent farmers next door — but […]
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TIFF: Ti West Sets ‘MaXXXine’ as Third Film in ‘X’ World
A24 and director Ti West have unveiled MaXXXine as the third film set in the world of their X slasher horror franchise. The announcement was made last night at the Toronto Film Festival as part of the Midnight Madness program during a screening of Pearl at the Royal Alexander Theatre. West will write and direct […]
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‘Pearl’ Review: Ti West and Mia Goth’s ‘X’ Prequel Delivers More Technicolor Camp Than Horror
The indie exploitation veteran and his starry-eyed leading lady trace the murderous mayhem of broken dreams on a Texas farm in the lush style of a midcentury melodrama in A24’s Venice premiere.
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‘Pearl’ Trailer Reveals Origins of Ti West’s ‘X’ Villain
Mia Goth, who played Pearl in Ti West’s horror slasher X for A24, is back to reveal the origins of her iconic villain character in Pearl, which dropped its trailer ahead of a Sept. 16, 2022 release. “Please Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known,” a young Pearl says at one […]
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Ti West’s ‘X’: Film Review | SXSW 2022
A troupe of would-be pornographers make a poor location choice in Ti West's '70s-set slasher film starring Jenna Ortega, Mia Goth and Scott Mescudi.
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