Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island” has been screening for press these last two weeks. Screener links were first distributed to awards-season pundits, signifying that Universal has a lot of faith in this film’s Oscar/Golden Globes chances, then national critics received their screeners just late last week. The response has been glowing, with a colleague telling me Apatow’s first movie in over 5 years is a “total triumph” and another journalist pal comparing the “raw” drama to the ‘60s British “Kitchen Sink” genre.

Steven Spielberg will not be directing Indiana Jones 5 [via Collider]. No, instead, it has been confirmed that director James Mangold (“Ford v Ferrari,” “Logan”) will be taking over directing duty.

The 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was this past Saturday. The 1980 masterpiece, adapted from Stephen King’s popular novel, was bashed by critics upon release. Hell, it won Kubrick a Razzie for Worst Director. The loosely distancing adaptation even got King so upset that he famously derided the Kubrick’s movie as “misogynistic” and “cold.” While, Roger Ebert’s initially dismissive two-star review of the film in 1980 ultimately had the famous Chicago-based critic admitting to a 180-degree opinion reversal and granting it a four-star Great Movies review in 2006.

Is “Oscar Poker” back? Not necessarily You can call this short, but short conversation I had with Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells as a quarantined version of our monthly podcast, which has been on hiatus ever since the Pandemic started. The topic of discussion is the Oscars and, more importantly, the inevitable reopening of theaters, whether it’d be in 2020 or, God forbid, 2021.

Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn spoke with TIFF boss Cameron Bailey in the latest episode of their IndieWire: Screen Talk podcast. The 60-minute conversation is worth a listen just to hear how Bailey is trying to plan this year's festival. Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of non-answers to Kohn and Thompson’s questions about how the fest will transpire because, well, nobody really knows how the world will look like in Septemeber, let alone next week. It does look as though Bailey and his staff are considering some in-person events for TIFF, exclusively just for Canadians, including outdoor screenings. The rumored digital shift online is also starting to look less likely due to push-back from some filmmakers, distributors, etc. According to Bailey, Canadians notwithstanding, the goal is to accommodate people who are unable to travel to Toronto in September with some kind of online option.

We already know that Cannes is not happening this year, but that hasn’t stopped its director Thierry Frémaux from giving us a few hints as to what films could have been part of its 73rd edition.

The Snyder Cut is real and it’s coming to a screen near you. The Zack Snyder-directed “Justice League” cut is set for an HBO max premiere in 2021, this according to the man himself, Snyder, who announced the news during a watchalong on Vero. It appears as though the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut hashtag worked, the faithful have been rewarded.

A Variety article courtesy of columnist Marc Malkin claims that “the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering postponing” the Oscars, and this is according to multiple sources.

As I had long suspected, Tom Hanks’ upcoming drama, “Greyhound,” is going from a theatrical premiere to a straight-to-streaming Apple TV+ debut.