After many months in the awards campaign, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has returned to Iran, where there is an active warrant for his arrest, sources tell Iran International.

A24 has picked up the rights to “Flesh of the Gods.” Furthermore, fresh off his recent Oscar nomination, Wagner Moura takes over a lead role from Oscar Isaac, who had to exit due to a scheduling conflict.

Cregger and Zach Shields will write the screenplay for the upcoming prequel. The current title? “Gladys.” In essence, this project is officially going forward at Warner Bros.

Lionsgate and Blumhouse, who apparently believe it’s a great idea to make another ‘Blair Witch’ movie, have hired Dylan Clark (“Transfigure,” “Home Movies,” and “Seagrass”) to direct the reboot.

Here’s Empire City Box Office confirming my previous intel. Netflix is going to release ‘Cliff Booth’ with a full on theatrical run in late September or early October.

This movie ain’t cheap. Universal reportedly gave the Daniels $150M to make it. That’s quite the amount given that their last film was made for just $25M.

Major studios and streamers—including Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, Apple, Amazon, and Netflix— were vying for Park’s latest, despite no stars being attached.

As mentioned last week, the opening night film for the 79th Cannes Film Festival will be Pierre Salvadori’s “La Vénus électrique.” It’s been officially announced by the festival this morning.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has shot a film in France, titled “All of the Sudden,” which will feature female lead duo Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) and Tao Okamoto (“The Wolverine”).

Following her Palme d’Or win — and Oscar for Best Original Screenplay — Justine Triet, the French filmmaker behind “Anatomy of a Fall,” has started shooting her next film.

We finally have a full-length trailer for David Lowery’s “Mother Mary,” and after more than two years, it will be released in theaters on April 17. The film has barely been promoted until today.

It might come as good news for some ‘Scream’ fans that Williamson is now saying he will not be returning for “Scream 8,” which might still enter production in the fall.

Bigelow is coming off last year’s “A House of Dynamite”—her first film in over eight years. She’s also the filmmaker behind “The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Strange Days,” “Point Break,” and “Near Dark.”

McKay has set up a new film. He’s going to direct a script he’s not written, one penned by “Together” helmer Michael Shanks. Sony Pictures has picked up this untitled sci-fi comedy.

The reviews, much like the first one, are terrible. Even on Rotten Tomatoes, which nowadays seems to have almost every wide release garnering a “fresh” rating, it’s struggling.

Here comes Eli Roth to save cinema. Roth, a director best known for his contributions to the torture-porn genre, has dated his next film.

“Supergirl” has a full length trailer. Krypto is apparently in danger, he needs to be saved, but don’t worry — there’s almost zero chance he won't survive.

This trailer comes over a week after a very successful test screening for “Backrooms,” Even those unfamiliar with the story’s lore felt the film was effective.

Word is that Paramount Pictures President believes the project has the potential to become “the next ‘Transformers’ or could be a Marvel universe.”

Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson co-star as the couple Cady terrorizes. You would think the script must have been great for such talent to take part in a remake that, on paper, sounds unnecessary.