Director Alexander Payne shares his thoughts on the current state of big-screen movies and their long run times.

Alexander Payne is known for making eclectic films with all-star casts. These are his highest-rated films according to Rotten Tomatoes!

Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) has had a pretty good year since getting her hands on the Academy Awards hardware. Standout roles in TV series Les Misérables, Fleabag, and The Crown, the latter of which will continue with Colman as Queen Elizabeth II in a second season, would be a banner year for just about anyone. But Colman is also looking ahead to carry 2019's momentum into 2020 and beyond. As Variety reports, Colman will lead Landscapers, a crime drama that's already received a series order from HBO / Sky, and which features two-time Oscar-winner …

Sideways and Downsizing director Alexander Payne has found his next project in directing a remake of the 1987 European drama Babette's Feast. It's been two years since Payne's last feature, Downsizing, was on the big screen back in 2017. Now, the award-nominated director is seemingly looking to break new ground in tackling this late '80s classic. [caption id="attachment_853668" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Orion Classics[/caption] As reported by Indiewire (via Deadline), Payne will be directing "a reimagining" of Babette's Feast, which originally starred French actor Stéphane Audran as Babette, a French …

Alexander Payne’s next project has come to an abrupt halt. We reported about a month ago that Mads Mikkelsen was set to lead the father-daughter road trip movie. Mikkelsen would play a Danish journalist who takes a road trip with his teenage daughter across the U.S. as he writes a story for a newspaper. However, now it’s all come crashing down as Deadline reports that Netflix has halted production due to a rights issue even though filming was supposed to begin next week. Per Deadline, “I’ve heard that the subject of the film, journalist Karl …

Three-and-a-half years ago, Alexander Payne signed on to direct an adaptation of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s travel articles My Saga for Bona Fide Productions, and now the film is finally heading into production -- with Mads Mikkelsen in final negotiations to star. Netflix has made a deal to finance and release the film, which is now untitled. Mikkelsen will play a Danish journalist who takes a road trip with his teenage daughter across the U.S. as he writes a story for a newspaper. Knausgaard is a Norwegian author who traced the Vikings’ historic trek through the Northern …

Oscar winner Emma Stone and two-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes are being eyed to star in Alexander Payne's next film The Menu, multiple sources familiar with the project have told Collider. Will Tracy (Succession) and Seth Reiss (Late Night With Seth Meyers) wrote the script, and the comedic horror-thriller is being produced by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Betsy Koch via Gary Sanchez Productions. Set in the world of high-end culinary culture, The Menu follows a young couple who travel to a remote island to attend an exclusive restaurant where the acclaimed chef has prepared a …