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What do you consider Quentin Tarantino’s best film? We know that’s a bit of a Sophie’s Choice, isn’t it? There are many great options. With that said, if you regard Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as the director’s most effective offering, you’re in good company. It turns out that Tarantino himself considers that Oscar-winning effort the most effective of his iconic cinematic oeuvre. How do we know? Because Tarantino once said as much to Howard Stern while he was making the rounds promoting his book, Cinema Speculation.

The controversial radio personality asked Tarantino to name his favorite of his films, to which the Pulp Fiction director replied: “For years people used to ask me stuff like that, and I would say something like, ‘Oh, they’re all my children.’” Tarantino continued, “I really do think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my best movie.

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is not your average Hollywood story. It’s a blend of history, fantasy, and nostalgia wrapped in an timeless package.

Set in 1969, it immerses you in the world of rising counterculture and a Hollywood at a crossroads. The movie blends real-life people and events, like Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee, and Charles Manson, with made-up characters like Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth.

Lena Dunham, Margaret Qualley, and Brad Pitt in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Credits: Columbia Pictures)

And of course, this is Tarantino we’re talking about, so he doesn’t just stick to the facts—he flips them upside down. Instead of just telling the story as it happened, the director uses his signature style to create something totally unpredictable. This movie stands out because it’s a love letter to Hollywood’s golden era.

The retro details, from vintage cars to neon signs,...

Originally announced way back in 2018, director Barry Andersson is turning the viral Creepypasta tale of the “Russian Sleep Experiment” into a horror movie, but it’s been radio silence on the project since that original report. Today, Screen Daily breaks the silence.

Screen Daily reports that “Los Angeles based production and distribution company Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide rights” to the film, which is titled Soviet Sleep Experiment.

Soviet Sleep Experiment, based on the Creepypasta urban legend, tells the story of “Russian researchers who keep four patients awake using an experimental stimulant. When the experiment spirals out of control the subjects take matters into their own hands.”

The original Creepypasta tale had claimed that Soviet researchers had used an experimental stimulant back in the 1940s to keep five people awake for 15 consecutive days.

The cast for Soviet Sleep Experiment includes Eva De Dominici, Rafal Zawierucha, Chris Kattan, Evgeny Krutov, Michael Villar,...

The thriller is based on a story from horror website Creepypasta.

Los Angeles based production and distribution company Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide rights to thriller Soviet Sleep Experiment, based on a story from horror fiction website Creepypasta.

Directed and produced by Barry Andersson and set in the late 1940s, the film is the story (known as The Russian Sleep Experiment in its Creepypasta version) of Russian researchers who keep four patients awake using an experimental stimulant. When the experiment spirals out of control the subjects take matters into their own hands.

The cast includes Eva De Dominici, Rafal Zawierucha, Chris Kattan,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the thriller Jack Strong, starring Patrick Wilson. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Written and directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Jack Strong has the following synopsis: In the midst of the Cold War, Ryszard Kuklinski, a colonel in the Polish army, challenges the Soviets when the communist regime was still powerful. The colonel discovers that Poland was the target of the US plans for a nuclear counterattack.

Wilson is joined in the cast by Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Dimitri Bilov, Dagmara Dominczyk, Oleg Maslennikov, Ireneusz Czop, Miroslaw Baka, Zbigniew Zamachowski,...

Lesson Plan is an action-thriller directed by Daniel Markowicz, starring Piotr Witkowski. The screenplay is written by Daniel Bernardi.

A “badass” movie with a retro touch that so reminds us of the movies back in the 90’s with fighters like Van Damme and Lundgren.

Note: there is no English dubbed trailer of this movie. Despair not, for the movie is dubbed, and quite well, might I add.

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Following the death of a teacher, a traumatized former police officer takes on a job at the high school intent on taking down the fentanyl dealing gang he believes is responsible for the murder of his friend.

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Here we have a number with simple characters and a storyline that is a replica of 90’s Hollywood productions, but more inclined to moralize.

There is hardly a scene where there is no fighting, and when there is none the “master” shows his tender and patronizing side.

U.S. actor John Malkovich is backing a plan to build Stonebridge Studios, a film, music and media production facility in Skopje, North Macedonia. The studio will be the largest of its kind in the Balkans, he said, Film New Europe reports.

The actor, who is presently in the Serbian city of Zaječar, will work with fellow actors D.W. Moffett and Matt Dillon on the creation of the studio, which is part of the Skopje Technology Park project.

In a video shared with Macedonian Radio and Television, Malkovich – whose father is of Croatian descent – said that the project is especially important to him as a “son of the Balkans.” He said he strongly believes that it will be crucial for the country and the region, and will amplify the already ascended Balkan film, music and art communities in every way possible.

The Skopje Technology Park is an initiative of Stp Capital Partners Holding,...

We’ve all read the commentaries on the Academy’s shortcomings when it comes to diversity. But what’s revealing is the movies the 8,500 voters actually nominated for Best Picture. Even long-running, well-reviewed hits like “The Farewell” and “Hustlers” didn’t resonate with enough Academy voters, accessible as they were. It reminds us of who these industry insiders are: Mostly white males over 60, many of whom — like writing branch member Stephen King — vote with their own taste rather than consider what they might be missing.

“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.

The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...

We’ve all read the commentaries on the Academy’s shortcomings when it comes to diversity. But what’s revealing is the movies the 8,500 voters actually nominated for Best Picture. Even long-running, well-reviewed hits like “The Farewell” and “Hustlers” didn’t resonate with enough Academy voters, accessible as they were. It reminds us of who these industry insiders are: Mostly white males over 60, many of whom — like writing branch member Stephen King — vote with their own taste rather than consider what they might be missing.

“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.

The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...

Two givens for Los Angeles living in 1969: perpetual driving around listening to the radio, and stereo cartridge needles dropping onto record grooves. Those things were the basics of our existence! CineSavant closes out his pre-Christmas cheer with his favorite picture of ’19. It’s possibly Quentin Tarantino’s best. Yes, yes I know it has that crazy finale, but overall it has much less violence than most anything else he’s done. Plus it has scenes that can be described as heartwarming, and quietly sentimental… practically new territory for this director. The respect shown for Sharon Tate is gratifying. Bring us more great stories that inspire you this way, Mr. T. !

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

4K UltraHD + Blu-ray + Digital

Sony/Columbia

2019 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 161 min. / Street Date December 10, 2019 / 27.96

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern,...

Roman Polanski is opening up about the murder of his wife Sharon Tate in 1969 — and the backlash he felt since then.

In press notes for his latest film J’Accuse at the Venice Film Festival, Polanski, 86, said he felt his “image” was affected negatively after the murder of his then-wife Tate, according to The Wrap. The director will not be attending the festival, according to Deadline.

Polanski remains controversial due to a later crime: In 1977, he was arrested for drugging and raping 13-year-old Samantha Geimer. He pleaded guilty to statutory rape but fled to Europe before completing his sentence. His...

Roman Polanski is returning to the international film circuit this week with the world premiere of his Dreyfus Affair drama “An Officer and a Spy” in competition at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Polanski’s inclusion at the prestigious festival has been met with backlash given he was charged with the rape of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977. Geimer has publicly forgiven Polanski, but that hasn’t stopped the incident from resurfacing in the #MeToo era. Deadline obtained a copy of the “Officer and a Spy” press notes, which features an interview with Polanski in which he says his “persecution” in the media started nearly a decade before the rape trial with the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate.

“The way people see me, my ‘image’, did indeed start to form with Sharon Tate’s death,” Polanski says. “When it happened, even though I was already going through a terrible time, the...

Once Upon A Time? In Hollywood movie review is here. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and also Al Pacino (in a cameo). The master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino calls it as his ?modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age.". Let?s find out how Tarantino pays his tribute to the golden age of Hollywood in the movie review of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Immediate reaction when the end credits roll

Man.. !! Quentin Tarantino will remain an institute in film making. The awesome Leonardo DiCaprio and the outstanding Brad Pitt reconfirm the genius of Tarantino in this dark, twisted knockout comedy drama that amazingly twines an ode to fictional Hollywood spaghetti westerns with the real Manson Murders in 1969.

The story of Once Upon A Time?In Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time? In Hollywood takes place...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”]

Quentin Tarantino’s good guys might not always win, but the filmmaker has never been interested in letting bad guys prosper. Tarantino’s particular brand of revisionist history and righteous anger has long been occupied with righting monumental wrongs, wrapped in uproarious violence that barely conceals his apparent contempt for the darker chapters of modern history.

With “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” however, finds Tarantino entering new territory. The movie combines his two modes of vengeance story — imaginative riffs on historical tragedies and personal tales of reprisal — into his most emotional movie yet.

In Tarantino’s fictional universe, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) doesn’t just live through the August 1969 murders that rocked Hollywood; she isn’t even subjected to the terror of the Manson Family breaking into her house and upending everything she loves. Instead, the “family” members go to the house next door to her infamous residence on Cielo Drive,...

(Spoiler warning: This addresses a minor plot point involving Sharon Tate in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.)

In 1979, 10 years after the murders of Sharon Tate and four others at her and Roman Polanski’s home, the infamous director released the film “Tess.”

The film, starring “Cat People” actress Nastassja Kinski, garnered six Oscar nominations, including for best picture, and won three. The film follows the harrowing and tragic life of the beautiful Tess, born into poverty and raped after being sent to live and work with what are believed to be wealthy relatives. At the time of the film’s release, Polanski had fled to France after pleading guilty to statutory rape in 1977.

“Tess” was deemed Polanski’s masterpiece up to that point, but the film’s origins began a decade earlier when Tate, Polanski’s wife, introduced him to the classic 1891 Thomas Hardy novel it’s based on,...

Chicago – What does Quentin Tarantino think about? That question immediately comes to mind when experiencing his latest film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Qt meditates on TV westerns, the summer of 1969 in Los Angeles and the Manson family, and it’s a tone and mood rather than a story. But it works.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

There is an unsettled nature to the film, much like his last two epics “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight.” There are bits and pieces of a story crossed together in a unique era in Hollywood/Los Angeles, which Qt captures perfectly. So with the Charles Manson Family looming in the background, why all the focus on an aging TV cowboy and his stunt double? That’s what Tarantino was thinking about, apparently, in association with all that is going on around them. This movie drew me in, had an absorbing intent – especially within the atmosphere...

David Crow Jul 25, 2019

We examine the shocking ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and what it means for the film's era and Quentin Tarantino.

This article contains major Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spoilers.

Joan Didion famously wrote in her 1979 collection of essays, The White Album, about the night Sharon Tate died.

“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969,” wrote Didion. “Ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”

This is often the conventional wisdom about the era: Charles Manson’s so called Family brought an end to the Summer of Love, which also just happened to occur around the same time that the old Hollywood studio system finally collapsed, buried by its massive flops like Hello,...

In a very real way, Quentin Tarantino’s whole career has been building up to this moment. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood may be his masterwork. Chock full of his obsessions, the movie combines everything that we’ve come to know and love about Tarantino’s filmmaking. One of his best, this film stands tall with the great works of his career. To simply call it one of 2019’s best is to do it a disservice. In taking audiences back to 1969, albeit a version of it imagined by him, he’s telling a story as no one else can. Bravo sir. The ninth outing from the iconic filmmaker, the film is set in Tarantino’s vision of 1969 Hollywood, right as the Golden Age was set to come crashing down in a wave of violence. For actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his best friend/stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt...

Roman Polanski reached out to Quentin Tarantino over the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood story. Tarantino has Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha portraying Polanski in the movie and the director has deep ties to the story, which has now become a piece of history. Tarantino had to be careful while approaching the subject and he was well aware of that factor when writing the movie since the impact of the Sharon Tate murder by the Manson Family is still being felt today.

Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969 while she was pregnant with the child of Roman Polanski. The story is one of the many that will be addressed in some fashion in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. When asked about Polanski, Quentin Tarantino had a lot to say. He explains.

"What happened was... look, when it comes to Roman Polanski we're talking about a tragedy...

I’ve been loving the hell out of everything I’ve seen from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood! The last trailer that was released was incredible and that was followed by a bunch of glowing reviews from audiences who had a chance to see the film at the Cannes Film Festival.

During a recent interview with Esquire, Tarantino compared his new film to Pulp Fiction and says it’s his love letter to Los Angeles.

“This film is the closest thing I’ve done to Pulp Fiction.”

This is in regards to the structure of the film and how multiple characters and story lines that are seemingly unrelated, all eventually intersect and intertwine with each other in unexpected and fun ways.

Tarantino goes on to say that it is his “most personal” film, and adds:

“I think of it like my memory piece. Alfonso [Cuarón] had Roma and Mexico City,...

Emmanuelle Seigner is not happy about Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The French actress is married to Roman Polanski and is upset over the fact that Tarantino is using the director's image in the movie. Polanski is played by Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha in Once Upon a Time and the 85-year old director was not consulted. Polanski was married to Sharon Tate when she was brutally murdered by the Manson Family in 1969.

Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the late model/actress' family was consulted before work began on the production. Emmanuelle Seigner is upset over the fact that Hollywood has no problem using the image of Roman Polanski in the movie to make some cash while the director continues to be ostracized from the entertainment industry as a whole. She explains.

"I am just saying that it doesn't...

Quentin Tarantino is not wedded to the Cannes cut of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He and editor Fred Raskin worked hard to finish it in time to world premiere at his favorite festival on May 21, and Tarantino told me he wouldn’t have shown it if he wasn’t ready. As soon as he was sure he could deliver, festival director Thierry Fremaux alerted the news. But even if Sony struck three wet 35mm prints of the two-hour, 39-minute Cannes version, Tarantino can still go back into the editing room, Sony chairman Tom Rothman confirmed at the premiere. A decade back, Tarantino re-edited “Inglourious Basterds” after Cannes, as well.

“I may make it longer,” said Tarantino at the Hotel Carlton, the day after audiences first saw the movie that proved to be the hottest ticket of this year’s festival by far. Raskin’s first assembly was four hours,...

Quentin Tarantino is not wedded to the Cannes cut of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He and editor Fred Raskin worked hard to finish it in time to world premiere at his favorite festival on May 21, and Tarantino told me he wouldn’t have shown it if he wasn’t ready. As soon as he was sure he could deliver, festival director Thierry Fremaux alerted the news. But even if Sony struck three wet 35mm prints of the two-hour, 39-minute Cannes version, Tarantino can still go back into the editing room, Sony chairman Tom Rothman confirmed at the premiere. A decade back, Tarantino re-edited “Inglourious Basterds” after Cannes, as well.

“I may make it longer,” said Tarantino at the Hotel Carlton, the day after audiences first saw the movie that proved to be the hottest ticket of this year’s festival by far. Raskin’s first assembly was four hours,...

Quentin Tarantino returns in a haze of cigarettes, cocktails, razzle-dazzle, and psychedelic rock with Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, a jarring concoction of ravishing 1960s fetishization and sliding doors “what if” moments that might just be his strangest film yet. It is certainly the director’s most patient, an uncharacteristic slow-burn that asks you to wait for it, jussst wait for it as it leads towards a fateful night in Hollywood folklore. The peculiarity of that pacing is notable and we’ll have to see if this cut–which was added to the Cannes lineup late on, supposedly as the director edited up until the last minute–will be the same that lands in theaters at the end of July.

In case readers have taken up accommodations on one of Jupiter’s less popular moons, Once Upon a Time stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt (together on screen for...

Tarantino said that the film, his ninth so far, could be seen to encapsulate his career to date.

Quentin Tarantino and his Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie faced international reporters at an occasionally difficult press conference on Wednesday morning at the Cannes Film Festival.

The most awkward moment saw a female reporter from the New York Times ask the director why Robbie, who plays Sharon Tate, has so few lines in the film. Tarantino replied, “I just reject your hypothesis,” before Robbie took over.

“I think the moments I was on...

Ascending the red carpet to the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac 1969 portrait of Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio looked like movie stars. That’s a commodity in short supply these days: stars who can open movies because fans want to see them.

At the film’s after-party on the roof of the Marriott Hotel, Brad Pitt admitted that he was seeing Quentin Tarantino’s movie for the first time. “The reaction was amazing,” he said. And Leonardo DiCaprio told me the film was Tarantino’s “homage to cinema, to the unrecognized people on the sidelines.”

There’s going to plenty of material for the eventual DVD extras, it seems, as Pitt and DiCaprio watched a movie that was missing some of their scenes, several of which Tarantino alluded to in the press conference on Wednesday, including a recreation of “The Great Escape” starring Dalton.

Ascending the red carpet to the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac 1969 portrait of Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio looked like movie stars. That’s a commodity in short supply these days: stars who can open movies because fans want to see them.

At the film’s after-party on the roof of the Marriott Hotel, Brad Pitt admitted that he was seeing Quentin Tarantino’s movie for the first time. “The reaction was amazing,” he said. And Leonardo DiCaprio told me the film was Tarantino’s “homage to cinema, to the unrecognized people on the sidelines.”

There’s going to plenty of material for the eventual DVD extras, it seems, as Pitt and DiCaprio watched a movie that was missing some of their scenes, several of which Tarantino alluded to in the press conference on Wednesday, including a recreation of “The Great Escape” starring Dalton.

The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodDear Danny, In an interview with Esquire ahead of the world premiere of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino said something I kept going back to all throughout his latest feature and Palme d’Or contender. “I think of it like my memory piece. Alfonso [Cuarón] had Roma and Mexico City, 1970. I had L. A. and 1969. This is me. (…) And this is my love letter to L.A.” Yesterday, May 21, Cannes woke up to Tarantino’s day. I’d been told there would be days like this, days when the buzz around the Palais du Cinema felt stronger, and the press room would empty out earlier than usual, with critics and festival-goers queuing and fighting for a spot in what was trumpeted as the film of the...

It has been 25 years to the day since Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, crystalizing a cinema revolution, and we have never looked back. Yet here’s one more Qt anniversary, a bit less monumental but, in its way, as meaningful: It has been 10 years since the premiere of “Inglourious Basterds,” which also took place at Cannes — and for me, at least, that means it’s been a decade since Quentin Tarantino gave us an unambiguously great Quentin Tarantino movie.

You know the difference as well as I do, because it’s one that you can feel in your heart, gut, and soul: the difference between a Quentin movie that’s got dazzle and brilliance and a number of hypnotic sequences, and is every inch the work of his fevered movie candy brain, and a Quentin film that enters your bloodstream like a drug and stays there,...

Quentin Tarantino has built a career out of celebrating movies by referencing his favorites, but with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” he salutes the process of making them. America’s master of zippy dialogue and high-minded pastiche consolidates those skills into a sprawling vision of the film industry in 1969, but Tarantino’s infectious love letter doesn’t have much of a plot. Instead, the filmmaker’s weirdest movie merges pre-Manson Hollywood with the looming specter of hippiedom. The result is a lopsided cultural mashup as viewed through Tarantino’s exuberant cinematic filter.

It’s also content to hang out with history, take liberties with the details, and allow co-stars Leonard DiCaprio and Brad Pitt to unleash a pair of endearing performances. Tarantino’s desire to salute the creative thrill of storytelling is an inviting and welcome presence in American cinema; his ninth feature suggests he really ought to work more often.

One of the scariest and most popular creepypasta tales out there is the urban legend called The Russian Sleep Experiment. And today we have word that a feature film adaptation is heading our way soon! In fact, the film just started shooting with Chris Kattan starring, and director Barry Andersson taking the helm of the sure-to-be terrifying film.

Also referred to as Orange Soda, Russian Sleep Experiment was written by an unknown author and became immensely popular upon its original publication. Its popularity has even led to various adaptations over the years, including a novel based on the original short story by Holly Ice, which was published in 2015. It's considered by some to be the greatest and most shared creepypasta story ever, and tells the tale of, "Five test subjects being exposed to an experimental sleep-inhibiting stimulant in a Soviet-era scientific experiment."

The film will not boast the title Russian...

It was just the other day we passed along word that Quentin Tarantino had found his Charles Manson for the upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And today we’ve learned the film has cast its Roman Polanski too! THR reports that Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha has been cast as the controversial director of […]

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Quentin Tarantino has found his Charles Manson. The filmmaker is currently in production on his latest movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which will be his ninth overall as a director. The casting process has been ongoing during the course of production, as Tarantino is assembling a massive ensemble for his latest. Thanks to a new report, we have word that he's cast Damon Herriman as the infamous Charles Manson. The Australian actor is best known for his role on FX's Justified.

We've known since long before this movie even had a title, when it was simply being shopped around to various studios as "9," that Charles Manson was going to be in it. Initially, it seemed like this movie was going to sort of be about Manson, a cult leader who put together a "family" that committed a series of brutal murders during the year in which...

Director Quentin Tarantino continues to build his cast for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Damon Herriman (Justified) has been cast in the role of Charles Manson in the film and Rafal Zawierucha will play director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate’s husband. Meanwhile, Danny Strong, Sydney Sweeney, Rumer Willis, Dreama Walker, Margaret Qualley, Costa Ronin, Victoria Pedretti and Madisen Beaty have been cast in the film as well. I can’t believe how massive this cast list is getting. I’m pretty sure that next week we’ll get a notice saying that everyone is in the film.

According to The Wrap, Rumer Willis will play British actress Joanna Pettet; "Walker plays actress and singer Connie Stevens and Ronin (The Americans) portrays Polish actor Voytek Frykowski, who was one of the victims of the Manson Family’s murder spree at Roman Polanski’s home on Cielo Drive." Qualley will take...

As controversy and conjecture lay the ground for a scenario wherein Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood destroys the thinkpiece industry, Film Twitter, and everything in their immediate, terrible vicinity, the writer-director’s been busy transforming Tinseltown for his late-60s drama centered on a TV actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and stuntman buddy’s (Brad Pitt) attempt to enter the studio system, all the while living next door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in the summer of 1969. Fittingly for his depiction of an era in which casts overflowed with big names and bit players, the ensemble is immense.

The recent headline-making additions are such: Maya Hawke, daughter of Ethan and Uma Thurman, as a fictional character, Flower Child; Lena Dunham as Manson member Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Share and bringer of skull-grinding discourse; Rumer Willis (another one-generation-removed reunion), Dreama Walker, Margaret Qualley, Costa Ronin, Victoria Pedretti, and Madisen Beaty...

The search for Quentin Tarantino’s Charles Manson is over. The Wrap confirms the director has cast Australian actor Damon Herriman as the infamous serial killer in his ninth feature, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The casting news arrives as Tarantino is already well into production on the 1969-set movie, which is shaping up to be his penultimate effort if he sticks to his plan to retire after ten movies.

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a television actor trying to break into the film industry alongside his friends and stuntman, played by Brad Pitt. The characters live next door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, played by Margot Robbie and Rafal Zawierucha. Tate and four others were murdered by members of the Manson Family cult on August 9, 1969.

Herriman is best known in the U.S. for playing Dewey Crowe on five seasons of the FX series “Justified.

Earlier today, Quentin Tarantino found his Roman Polanski in Rafal Zawierucha and now, the two-time Academy Award winner has finally filled the role we’ve all been waiting for: Charles Manson. According to Cinema Blend (H/T The Wrap), Damon Herriman, star of Justified and Incorporated, has landed the part of the infamous serial killer in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Currently, the extent of Herriman’s role is unknown, but, seeing as a majority of his work has taken place on the small screen, this will undoubtedly be the most significant production of which he’s ever been apart. Joining Herriman on the non-fiction side of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Rumer Willis (Joanna Pettet), Dreama Walker (Connie Stevens) and Costa Ronin (Voytek Frykowski). Margaret Qualley (The Nice Guys), Madisen Beaty (The Fosters) and Victoria Pedretti have also come aboard.

Leonardo DiCaprio Shares First Pic From Once...

The cast for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood absolutely refuses to quit growing. Tarantino has already been in production on his latest directorial effort for weeks, but that doesn't mean he hasn't found time to add to his ever-growing ensemble left and right. We now have word that several more people have signed on for various roles in the late 1960s period piece, including the actor who will portray a young Roman Polanski.

Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha, who is pretty much an unknown in the U.S., will take on the role of Roman Polanski in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We had previously heard word that Polanski, who has had a prolific career as a filmmaker but a very troubling and controversial personal life, would be a key part of Quentin Tarantino's movie, which will also feature Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, who was...

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has found its Roman Polanski. Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha will play the infamous filmmaker, whose wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers in 1969. Also joining Zawierucha in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie are Danny Strong and Sydney Sweeney, once again expanding the ever-growing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood cast. […]

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For his ninth feature film, Quentin Tarantino is swinging for the fences.

While the illustrious filmmaker has a long history of selecting strong ensembles, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his upcoming 1960s-set period drama, ups the ante quite considerably with one of the most impressive casts we’ve seen in a very, very long time.

At the forefront of the 2019 pic are Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as two Hollywood old-timers – one’s a washed-up Western TV star, the other’s his luckless stunt double – struggling to make ends meet in a Tinsel Town they no longer recognize. To make matters worse, they soon discover that their neighbor, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), is one of the victims of the Manson Family and their deranged followers.

And now, it seems Quentin Tarantino is ready to round off his ensemble cast with Danny Strong and The Handmaid’s Tale breakout Sydney Sweeney.

Danny Strong and Handmaid's Tale breakout Sydney Sweeney have joined Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 

The movie, set in 1969 Los Angeles, also has added Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha to play a young Roman Polanski, joining previously announced star Margot Robbie, who portray Sharon Tate. Clu Gulager, James Landry Hébert and Better Things star Mikey Madison also have been tapped as castmembers.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a former star of a Western TV series, and his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who are struggling to ...

Danny Strong and Handmaid's Tale breakout Sydney Sweeney have joined Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 

The movie, set in 1969 Los Angeles, also has added Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha to play a young Roman Polanski, joining previously announced star Margot Robbie, who portray Sharon Tate. Clu Gulager, James Landry Hébert and Better Things star Mikey Madison also have been tapped as castmembers.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a former star of a Western TV series, and his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who are struggling to ...