Mikey Madison has sparked a debate for her comments about not using an intimacy coordinator when making “Anora.” It was her choice to not have one, but that doesn’t seem to be enough for some people. | Continue reading
Here’s a great Variety piece. The trade has asked directors to pick their best films of 2024. So many notable names are included; Christopher Nolan, Barry Jenkins, Alfonso Cuaron, Andrew Haigh, Alexander Payne, David Lowery, Michael Mann, JJ Abrams … | Continue reading
Matt Reeves is saying that talks have officially started about a second season of “The Penguin Penguin,” which was met with much praise and audience adoration in November (via Variety). | Continue reading
Maika Monroe is set to lead Chloe Okuno’s horror “Brides.” Monroe and Okuno previously teamed up on the underrated 2022 film “Watcher” (via Deadline). The film is set to start production in Spring 2025. | Continue reading
Sofia Coppola is telling Vogue that she’s started writing her next film, and that she’ll be working on it for most of 2025. The script is still in the “very early stages,” but that she’s “excited” to see where it goes. | Continue reading
In a new interview, at the Marrakech Film Festival, Cronenberg says he’s not retired, and plans on making another film, potentially based on his own 2014 novel “Consumed.” | Continue reading
I’m being told Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s tentatively titled “Judy,” starring Tom Cruise, started filming in November, and just wrapped the first part of production last week. Shooting will resume in January. That’s great news for a potential 2025 release. Cruise, who plays th … | Continue reading
At this past May’s Cannes Film festival, I met up with a producer who told me that Oliver Stone, 77, was shopping around a highly political feature film project, and I swore not to talk about its contents, but Stone definitely wants to make another film. | Continue reading
Marvel boss Kevin Feige is said to have “big plans” for Mephisto a character that was originally rumored to appear in the Disney+ series “Agatha All Along,” he’s now set to debut in another Marvel series, “Ironheart.” | Continue reading
Alex Scharfman’s debut feature, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, concerns a father and daughter who "accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat.” | Continue reading
Greig Fraser will not be coming back for “Dune: Messiah.” His replacement will be Oscar winning DP Linus Sandgren whose most notable work can be seen in “La La Land”, “Saltburn,” “Babylon,” and “No Time to Die.” | Continue reading
Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Carry-On,” an airport Christmas thriller starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson, was the most-watched debut on Netflix this year. The film just nabbed 42M views in its first five days of release. | Continue reading
Pixar has removed a transgender character’s storyline from their upcoming “Win or Lose.” You should take a look at the online outrage that’s happening over this (actually, maybe you shouldn’t). | Continue reading
This year, 85 countries submitted their selections. That’s a record. A quick glimpse at the short list, it’s hard not to predict “I’m Still Here,” “Emilia Perez,” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” as our main frontrunners. | Continue reading
The current plan is for a May production start in the UK, and that’s despite Reeves’ script having not been submitted yet to DCU co-chairs James Gunn and Peter Safran. No word on casting, for now. | Continue reading
Yes, the review embargo has lifted and, for the most part, ‘Mufasa’ is not being well received by critics. I actually expected reactions to be far worse than this, but as it stands, the film has a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes. | Continue reading
Sony’s ‘Spider-Verse” trilogy has found its directors. Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson are set to direct “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.” It looks like Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers, who, along with Thompson, directed the last instalment (‘Across the Spider-Vers … | Continue reading
Roland Emmerich, the German director of “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day” confirms he’s teaming with writer Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”) for what he hopes will be his next two projects, “Exodus” and “Lawrence.” | Continue reading
Last month, Timothee Chalamet wrapped shooting Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” in New York City. Josh hasn’t directed a feature since 2019’s “Uncut Gems.” He’s since split with his directing partner, and brother, Benny Safdie. | Continue reading
In case anybody here cares, ‘Wicked: Part Two,’ set for November 2025 release, is now officially called “Wicked: For Good.” Terrible title. Universal still has 11 months before it hits theaters, so they can still change it. | Continue reading
Alex Gibney, one of the more acclaimed non-fiction filmmakers, has decided that it would be a good idea to have his next documentary be about Luigi Mangione. The murder trial hasn’t even started, and yet a movie is already being made about the guy. | Continue reading
The massive success of the “28 Years Later” trailer has finally prompted Sony to release the original 2002 Danny Boyle directed film, “28 Days Later,”on digital December 18 for purchase and rental. | Continue reading
I was one of the 177 “critics” and “journalists” who participated in the annual IndieWire critics poll naming the best films of 2024. The results aren’t half-bad. As it stands, half of the titles in the top 10 might make my own list, which will be published next week. | Continue reading
“The Night of” would be one of the more recent examples of an exceptional limited series include which might constitute cinema, the others that spring to mind include Craig Mazin’s “Chernobyl,” Mike Nichols’ “Angels in America,” and Cary Fukunaga’s “True Detective” (season one, o … | Continue reading
Heckerling, 70, hasn’t directed a film in well over 13 years, and that’s coming off her last three critically panned films (“Loser,” “I Could Never Be Your Woman,” and “Vamps”). | Continue reading
A reappraisal is already happening on Robert Zemeckis’ “experimental” film which covers the events of a single room and its inhabitants spanning from the past (paleolithic) to well into the future. | Continue reading
Last month, I spoke to a person who had seen “Warfare” and swore that it’s, by far, Alex Garland’s best film. They weren’t a big fan of his previous efforts, and were shell shocked by how good this latest one was. | Continue reading
Is it a coincidence that we’re getting two separate articles, both from major outlets, within a week of each other, tackling the supposed end of Hollywood’s “woke” era? Hey, it’s not even me using that word. The New York Times’ Kabir Chibber and The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin are … | Continue reading
Deadline is reporting that “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” will not be coming out in 2025. The outlet’s Sony source wants us not to worry, and know that the studio is “taking a lot of tender loving care with the film.” | Continue reading
Deadline had previously reported that “Sgt. Rock,” starring Daniel Craig, was being set up as Guadagnino’s next film, and now Jeff Sneider is saying that production on the DCU film is supposed to begin next fall. | Continue reading
Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film was originally called “The Battle of Baktan Cross.” It looks like either that was a placeholder, or they’ve decided to rename it. | Continue reading
Christian Bale is in talks to play former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis in David O. Russell’s “Madden,” which stars another Oscar winner, Nicolas Cage, as football icon John Madden. The film is set to shoot early next year. | Continue reading
A catastrophic number for the $110M film. Sony's put out so many poor movies under their Spider-Man universe that people took a wait-and-see approach for this one. What clinched its fate was when the reviews finally came out, on Wednesday, and they were almost all bad. | Continue reading
There he is again. Glen Powell. You just can’t escape him these days. Powell is set to star in the erotic thriller “Homewreckers.” The film is being described as a mix between an Adrian Lyne film, like “Unfaithful,” and Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina.” | Continue reading
Reed Morano is teasing her Charlie Kaufman penned “The Memory Police.” An image was up on Morano’s Instagram stories, but it’s already expired, you can find it above. ‘Memory Police’ has already been shot, and is seemingly setting up a 2025 release. | Continue reading
Here comes news that Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” has set up a December 24 VOD date — just four weeks after the film was released in theaters. That’s the new normal. Studios just can’t help themselves in trying to reap the monetary benefits that come with the sped-up digital rel … | Continue reading
If you’re wondering how Corbet will be following up “The Brutalist” then we just got an answer for you. He’s telling The New Yorker that he’s currently writing his next film, a western-horror, that will have a “looser style,” but will once again tackle the immigration process. | Continue reading
“Wuthering Heights” has been dated for release on February 13, 2026 by Warner Bros. If the film turns out great, don’t be surprised if it gets an awards qualifying run in late 2025. | Continue reading
Guy Pearce, whose lead performance in “Memento” belongs in the Nolan time capsule, is now saying that a WB executive blacklisted him from ever appearing in another one Nolan’s projects. | Continue reading
‘Barbie 2’ is in the works. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have finally “cracked the code” and pitched the idea for a sequel to Warner Bros’ $1.4 billion box office behemoth (via THR). Margot Robbie would return in the lead role. | Continue reading
James Gunn is now saying “there has yet to be a first draft of the script.” Um, didn’t Matt Reeves tell us four months ago that the script was done? Somebody is lying. | Continue reading
Reynolds is telling THR that “Boy Band,” which he is producing with Shawn Levy, and already has a home at Paramount, will tell the story of former boy band members reuniting as middle-aged men. Shawn Levy is set to direct. | Continue reading
One of Hewitt’s biggest hits was horror schlock “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and its subsequent sequel, and Sony has decided to bring her back, with co-star Freddie Prinze Jr, for the latest installment of the horror film franchise. | Continue reading
Luca Guadagnino is telling Sight and Sound that not only is Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part III” the best one of the trilogy, but that his much-maligned “Jack” is a “masterpiece.” | Continue reading
“Kraven the Hunter,” the latest — and final — entry in Sony’s Spider-Man villain universe, racked up $2M in Thursday previews. The $110M costing movie is now set to bomb with a $13M-$15M opening — the projected weekend tally would be lower than Sony’s much-ridiculed “Madame Web” … | Continue reading
It turns out that Evans won’t be playing Captain America, and instead will be portraying Nomad (via The Hot Mic). This casting comes after Evans’ fellow MCU alumni, Robert Downey Jr, was also cast as a completely different character, Doctor Doom. | Continue reading
UPDATE: Matt Belloni has confirmed that the trailer is coming next week, and that it heavily features Superman’s dog Krypto, who apparently steals the show. | Continue reading
Since 1968, Werner Herzog has directed 20 fiction feature films, and 34 documentary feature films. Some of his most iconic works include “Aguirre The Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo,” “Lessons of Darkness” and “Grizzly Man.” | Continue reading