Detective Chinatown 3 earned $393 million in its opening weekend in China and surpassed Avengers: Endgame's record for the best opening weekend in a single market.

The Batman director Matt Reeves spoke at length at DC FanDome about his grounded comic book movie, and when he was asked which non-Batman movies inspired his new film, he singled out Chinatown, Taxi Driver and The French Connection. "Chinatown was a key one, because in Chinatown, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), in investigating the series of crimes that were part of that story, he discovers the depth of corruption of Los Angeles. So in that way, [The Batman] is like a classic noir. This series of murders that Batman is investigating are very much in that mode," said Reeves, …

After making a meta-textual screen acting comeback in 2020's The Way Back, Ben Affleck is looking to make his screen directing comeback. As reported by Deadline, Affleck will be directing The Big Goodbye, a dramatized look behind the scenes of the iconic Hollywood film Chinatown. The Big Goodbye will be based on the book of the same name by Sam Wasson. Released in 1974, Chinatown rocked audiences with its incendiary script by Robert Towne, nihilistic direction by Roman Polanski, and committed performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It also represents a sort of last "gasp" at the …

After making a meta-textual screen acting comeback in 2020's The Way Back, Ben Affleck is looking to make his screen directing comeback. As reported by Deadline, Affleck will be directing The Long Goodbye, a dramatized look behind the scenes of the iconic Hollywood film Chinatown. The Long Goodbye will be based on the book of the same name by Sam Wasson. Released in 1974, Chinatown rocked audiences with its incendiary script by Robert Towne, nihilistic direction by Roman Polanski, and committed performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It also represents a sort of last "gasp" at the …

Chinatown is one of the most beloved films in the industry's history, and here are the ten best and most iconic scenes from the movie.

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On the latest episode of The Sneider Cut, your esteemed host Jeff Sneider weighs in on this week's news, disputed by Todd Phillips himself, that Joker 2 is in the works, plus the Michael Jackson biopic, Noah Hawley's Star Trek movie and David Fincher's Chinatown prequel series on Netflix. Elsewhere, Jeff examines the rumors that Kathleen Kennedy isn't long for the Star Wars universe, as well as the controversies surrounding two AFI Fest premieres -- Richard Jewell and The Banker, the latter of which saw its release date spiked by Apple this week. Jeff also offers his …

A Chinatown prequel series is in early development at Netflix, with the film’s screenwriter and David Fincher attached to script the pilot episode.

Well here's one that caught us by surprise: David Fincher has agreed to executive produce a Chinatown prequel series for Netflix, which has hired original screenwriter Robert Towne to write the pilot. The series would follow a young Jake Gittes, the character played by Jack Nicholson in the original film and its subsequent 1990 sequel, The Two Jakes. Roman Polanski directed the original 1974 classic, which co-starred Faye Dunaway, and was produced by Robert Evans. Fincher and Towne will executive produce alongside Josh Donen, and while Netflix hopes Fincher will direct the pilot, that isn't yet part …

Robert Evans produced films like Chinatown, The Godfather, and Rosemary's Baby. He passed away on Monday, October 28.