Amidst the great Venice lineup announcement today comes a bombshell courtesy of Deadline.

Writer-Director Matthew Wilder, who wrote Paul Schrader’s delightful “Dog Eat Dog,” has seen “The Master Gardener” and had this to say about it [via his Instagram]:

A few little runtime nuggets gathered from today’s Venice announcement.

More to come …

Venice boss Alberto Barbera did his annual drip-drip confirmations on Twitter this afternoon.

Today’s released “teaser,” frankly, doesn’t give us much to chew on. There’s mostly Blanchett in slo-mo exhaling what seems to be cigarette smoke. Then she leads an orchestra for a few seconds. It’ll probably be a good film.

Buzz is growing for Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till.” A trailer was released this morning.

As he was announcing that Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” would be opening the Venice Film Festival, big boss Alberto Barbera, who usually announces the Venice opener sooner, stated …

Editor Tom Cross has officially completed post-production work with Damien Chazelle on the much-anticipated period epic “Babylon.”

The last few days have finally given us some much-needed intel to better surmise what might be in competition at Venice — both THR and Variety have weighed in with their picks.

I figure many readers have or will catch Jordan Peele’s “Nope” over the weekend.

The teaser for Martin Scorsese's “Killers of The Flower Moon” has been rated, and should be out in the coming days, along with the first poster.

There had been these persistent rumours that Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans” would go to the New York Film Festival for around a month now. I brushed them off, waiting for more credible sources to chime in.

Netflix and Nicolas Winding Refn are about to launch “Copenhagen Cowboy” at Venice, this is Refn’s first production in Denmark since 2007’s “Pusher III.”

The Wrap’s Alonso Duralde is considerably puzzled by the marketing behind “Nope”.

Here’s the teaser for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” Watch it, in rough quality, before it gets taken down.

We’ve all been wondering where Spike Jonze has been since his 2013 masterpiece “Her.” Since his debut film “Being John Malkovich,” Jonze has only directed four movies in 23 years.