Matt Leslie

Writer | Director | Producer
🔪 Summer of 84 (2018)
🚪 The Knocking (TBD 2026)
🧸 Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey 2 (2024)

[Variety @Variety]

"Mud" and "Loving" director Jeff Nichols says shooting indie movies in America is "nearly impossible." He shot his next movie, "King Snake," in Arkansas "out of necessity."

"It’s devastating. Studios negotiate contracts with these guilds and unions, and I suppose when they make agreements that they don’t ultimately want to pay for the results if they take production elsewhere. I’ve been in Georgia, and from what I’ve heard it’s been a pretty devastating blow with Disney taking everything to London; the work there has been challenging since this last round of strikes and everything else. The thing is, American independent filmmakers do have to abide by those contracts — and they weren’t built for us. We really need to look, as an industry, at independent film production — what it provides, what it costs — and we need more flexibility in those contracts, and more flexibility from our unions and our guilds in order to make things at different price points so that as independent film producers we have a fighting chance to keep things in the U.S. The truth is, as state-based subsidies continue to change and move, that’s not enough. We have to find ways to have independent film producers stay in the United States, and it’s a massive challenge, so that in between the big studio films there’s a thriving ecosystem of film."

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@SaveYourCinema @am_cinematheque @bruinwest1937 @TimothyDowling 😍

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This trailer for THE DEVILS is a proper banger.

[Warner Bros. Clockwork @clockwork_wb]

Behold the Holy Grail.

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS opens in theaters October 16 for an exclusive one-week engagement.

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@SaveYourCinema @ArcLightCinemas Arclight Hollywood will always be the theatrical experience I compare everything else to. And sadly I don’t think it’ll ever be topped.

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@thereal1stjoker Fuuuuck yeah dude.

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@TimothyDowling I’m going BLOW.

Which is a strange sentence to write.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

The Summer of 1984 has entered the conversation

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@HectorTrejo I’m waiting for THE KNOCKING too lol. Prob coming out next year.

Thanks for the SO84 love. Means a lot coming from you Héctor ❤️🙏🏻

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@TimothyDowling Great answers. I’d go WAR OF THE ROSES.

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@joerussotweets She’s the new Mary Jane Watson?!! JOOOOOR!!!

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This brings me joy

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

Wow. Los Angeles is experiencing a theatrical exhibition renaissance!
Cinerama Dome reopening ✅
Bruin Theater reopening ✅
Bay Theater reopening ✅
Highland Theater reopening ✅

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@joerussotweets @MickGarrisPM Unshockingly TRAP-level take from Jor.

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@joerussotweets Jeeez, spoiler alert Jor…..

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@joerussotweets Cue me playing the piano for the first time in years…. And then you hold me tenderly.

Are we gonna be ok?

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But like whyyyyyyyyy???

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Netflix is reportedly exploring a $250 million acquisition of movie review platform Letterboxd.

[SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra]

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

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